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5 Mark Schlesische Kohlen- & Cokes-Werke
| Issuer | Schlesische Kohlen- & Cokes-Werke, Gottesberg |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 5 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is left blank (unprinted), serving as the plain paper verso of this emergency voucher. An oval carmine-red handstamp is applied in the lower left area, partially legible, serving as an authenticating cancellation or validation mark. |
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| Protection description | Oval carmine handstamp applied to the lower left of the reverse as an authenticating mark; no watermark present. |
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Gottesberg — now Boguszów-Gorce in southwestern Poland — was deep coal and coke country, and when the August 1914 mobilization drained metallic currency from circulation, industrial firms here issued their own Notgeld rather than wait for the Reichsbank to respond. The Schlesische Kohlen- & Cokes-Werke note is a product of that first, urgent wave of private emergency money, distinct from the decorative municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany from 1916 onward.
The handstamp security feature is characteristically minimal — local job printing, local authentication. The Stadtblatt-Druckerei was a regional newspaper printer pressed into unfamiliar service.