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5 Mark blue on blue
| Issuer | City of Gera (Reuss-Schleiz) |
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| Reference(s) | Gigante#172.1 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Printed on watermarked paper |
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Gera was the capital of the small Thuringian principality of Reuss-Schleiz, and when the postwar currency chaos of 1918–1919 stripped German municipalities of reliable small change, local authorities across the region issued their own emergency paper — Notgeld. The City of Gera's 5 Mark piece is among the more formally produced examples of the type, printed locally rather than farmed out to one of the larger commercial presses, and incorporating a watermark at a moment when most municipal issuers were cutting every possible corner.
The Gigante reference places this firmly within the Italian collectors' tradition of cataloguing German Notgeld — an index of how broadly this material dispersed into European collections after the inflation years.