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5 Mark Kreis Schlochau
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Schlochau |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgeldschein des Kreises Schlochau über 5 - Fünf Mark - 5 Schlochau, den 14. November 1918. Der Kreisausschuß. Für die Einlösung dieses Kriegsgeldscheines haftet der Kreis Schlochau. Er wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb zweier Monate nach öffentlichem Aufruf im Kreisblatt bei der Kreisbank in Schlochau eingelöst wird. Der Aufruf zum Umtausch kann vom 1. Februar 1919 ab erfolgen. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kriegsgeldschein Fünf Mark des Kreises Schlochau 5 5 5 5 |
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Schlochau (now Człuchów, in present-day Poland) was a Kreis in the Prussian province of Pommern, and like hundreds of other German administrative districts in 1918, its Kreisausschuss issued Notgeld to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that had plagued civilian commerce since mid-war. The 5 Mark denomination sits at the upper end of what most Kreise dared to print — most stuck to 50 Pfennig and 1 Mark — suggesting genuine local liquidity pressure rather than precautionary issue.
The territory was ceded to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles in 1920, which cut short any extended circulation life this note might otherwise have had.