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5 Mark - Stuttgart
| Issuer | Stuttgart (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Large numeral '5' dominates the central field, rendered in bold raised relief on the white porcelain surface. The word 'mark' appears in Fraktur blackletter script below the numeral. A circular legend reading 'Stuttgart' and 'Ludwigsburg' in Fraktur blackletter surrounds the central device, separated by ornamental stops. The design is framed by a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stuttgart's porcelain notgeld emerged from the same postwar emergency that drove dozens of German municipalities to commission ceramic currency from Meissen and other manufacturers — conventional metals had been requisitioned, hoarded, or priced out of practical coinage use. The city turned to Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, whose kilns were already producing emergency coinage for multiple issuers simultaneously by 1921.
Porcelain pieces from this period are deceptively fragile survivors; most cracked in circulation or were discarded once the emergency passed.