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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse (Kämmereikasse) der Stadt Aschaffenburg |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note on cream paper with a decorative border of floral and geometric guilloche elements; the denomination numeral '5' appears in ornate circular cartouches at each corner. The centre bears the large Gothic-script inscription 'Fünf Mark' overlying a circular vignette of the city seal of Aschaffenburg, showing a robed figure before a town gate with the legend 'ASCHAFFENBURG SIGILLUM' around the perimeter. Below, a text block in Gothic script records the payment obligation of the Kämmereikasse der Stadt Aschaffenburg, signed by the Stadtmagistrat, with a red hand-stamped serial number at the top. |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a detailed line-engraved vignette of Johannisburg Castle viewed from across the Main River, with sailing vessels and riverbank vegetation in the foreground and trees flanking the Renaissance palace. The scene is enclosed within a decorative border of repeating floral rosettes and denomination numerals '5' set in circular cartouches at the corners and along each side, the whole printed in dark brown on cream paper. |
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Aschaffenburg's municipal treasury — the Stadtkasse, sometimes recorded under the older designation Kämmereikasse — issued emergency paper money during the notgeld period, when the Reich's coinage supply collapsed under wartime and then postwar pressures. Municipal cashiers across Germany were essentially forced into becoming de facto note issuers, with legal authority loosely granted by local ordinance rather than central banking statute.
The DeNG reference places this within the standard Deutsches Notgeld catalog. The 3#022.01 designation suggests a first type or first variant within the Aschaffenburg sequence — worth checking against known printings, as some Bavarian municipal issues of this period were produced in very small runs and quietly withdrawn once Reichsbank liquidity improved.