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5 Marks
| Issuer | Stadt St. Georgen im Schwarzwald (City of St. Georgen in the Black Forest) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsgeld der Stadt St. Georgen (Schwarzwald) Fünf Mark Dieser Schein ist bis 1. Februar 1919 gültig und wird von der Stadtkasse St. Georgen (Schwarz.) eingelöst. St. Georgen (Schwarz.) 1. Oktober 1918. Für die Stadtgemeinde: Der Bürgermeister |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: War Money of the City of St. Georgen (Black Forest) Five Marks This note is valid until February 1, 1919 and will be redeemed by the city treasury of St. Georgen (Black Forest). St. Georgen (Black Forest), October 1, 1918. For the city municipality: The Mayor) |
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St. Georgen im Schwarzwald was a small industrial town — clocks and precision machinery — and like hundreds of German municipalities in late 1918, it issued its own emergency currency (Notgeld) when the imperial coinage system effectively collapsed under wartime metal shortages and hoarding. The 5 Mark denomination sits at the upper end of what municipalities typically issued at this stage, suggesting local wage and commerce demands drove the decision rather than a simple shortage of small change.
Doering'sche Kunstdruckerei in Karlsruhe was a regional commercial printer that handled Notgeld contracts for several Baden municipalities during this period — competent work, nothing exotic.