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5 Mark Rybnik, Steinkohlen-Gewerkschaft
| Issuer | Rybniker Steinkohlen-Gewerkschaft |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 5 Marks |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper Gutschein (voucher note) issued at Emmagrube on 15 August 1914, with the denomination Fünf Mark set in bold letterpress at centre. The text advises that the cashiers of the Rybniker Steinkohlen-Gewerkschaft will honour this note until 15 September 1914. An oval violet rubber stamp of the issuing colliery appears at left, a handwritten purple signature runs diagonally across the centre, and a second ink signature is placed below; a perforated numeral pattern is visible at right, serving as a cancellation or control device. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein. Gegen Aushändigung dieses Gutscheines zahlen die Kassen der Rybniker Steinkohlen-Gewerkschaft bis einschließlich den 15. September 1914 Fünf Mark Emmagrube, den 15. August 1914. Rybniker Steinkohlen-Gewerkschaft. |
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Rybniker Steinkohlen-Gewerkschaft was a coal-mining cooperative operating in Rybnik, Upper Silesia — a region whose industrial output made it economically critical to Germany throughout the First World War. Notes like this one were issued in 1914 as Notgeld, emergency scrip produced by private employers and municipalities when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost immediately after war was declared, hoarded by a nervous public.
The rubber stamp and perforation cancellation were the issuer's practical authentication system, applied locally rather than at any central printing facility. Mining company scrip of this type was redeemable only within the issuer's commercial orbit — company stores, local suppliers — which kept the float manageable and the liability contained.