5 Mark

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against known printings, as some Bavarian municipal issues of this period were produced in very small runs and quietly withdrawn once Reichsbank liquidity improved.