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5 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Erfurt |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Erfurter Druckerei und Plakatzentrale, Erfurt, Germany |
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| Reverse description | Left panel contains a vignette of a standing armoured knight with a spoked wheel device above, rendered in brown letterpress. The right half carries portrait underprints of two civic officials in olive-green, flanking a central text block with redemption conditions and denomination numerals '5 Mark' in two corner cartouches. Printer's imprint 'Ohlenroth, Erfurt' at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über fünf Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen jederzeit in Zahlung genommen; er wird mit zweiwöchiger Frist, spätestens zum 1. Februar 1919, zur Einziehung und Einlösung aufgerufen und verliert mit dem Tage, zu welchem er aufgerufen ist, seine Gültigkeit. 5 Mark |
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Erfurt's municipal authority issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that proliferated across German cities and towns in the final year of the First World War. The Magistrat der Stadt Erfurt was among hundreds of local bodies forced to fill the void left by hoarded coins and strained central bank supplies — Notgeld in the truest sense, born of necessity rather than civic pride.
The Erfurter Druckerei und Plakatzentrale was a commercial printing and poster house, not a security printer. That origin shows in how these notes age.