5 Marks

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.