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5 Mark Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei
| Issuer | Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei, Filiale Mühlhausen i. Th. |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely on red paper in black letterpress, this emergency Gutschein carries the denomination in both words ("Fünf Mark", underlined) and numeral ("5.–") to the upper right, with the serial number in a boxed field at top right. The issuing date "Mühlhausen i. Thür., 21. August 1914" appears in the centre field, followed by the issuer's name in Gothic script. A redemption notice in small roman type occupies the lower margin, and a large "Bezahlt" cancellation stamp with manuscript initials is applied diagonally across the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für Fünf Mark 5.– No Mühlhausen i. Thür., 21. August 1914. Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei. Filiale Mühlhausen i. Th. Bezahlt Diese Gutscheine werden gesammelt in Beträgen von 20 Mark wochentäglich von 8—12 Uhr im Kontor Tiedemannstr. 28 eingelöst. |
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Notgeld issued by a wool-combing and worsted-spinning operation, not a bank. The Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei was one of the largest textile concerns in Imperial Germany, headquartered in Bremen-Blumenthal, and its Mühlhausen branch issued this note in 1914 as the mobilization crisis drained small-denomination coins from circulation almost overnight. Municipalities, factories, and cooperatives across Germany scrambled to fill the gap — this note belongs to that first wave of emergency issues, before any centralized framework existed for controlling or standardizing private Notgeld.
Textile firms were among the earliest private issuers precisely because they paid large workforces in regular weekly wages and could not function without small change.