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5 Punkte
| Issuer | Reichskommissariat Ostland |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Reference(s) | Kulo#15, S&B#1033 |
| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre letterpress voucher with ornate corner flourishes and a fine guilloche underprint. Two circular vignettes flank the central denomination: at left, a woman harvesting flax; at right, a woman shearing a sheep, each surrounded by the bilingual motto in German and Latvian. Centre bears the large numeral "5" and "PUNKTE" over an eagle-and-swastika seal of the Reichskommissar für das Ostland. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse printed in dark brown letterpress. Bilingual text in German and Latvian lists examples of point values for various textile goods. Two circular eagle-and-swastika stamps appear at lower left and right. Validity date "Gültig bis zum 30. April 1945" / "Derīga līdz 1945. g. 30. aprīlim" is printed in bold italics at centre bottom, with the printer's imprint below. |
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The Reichskommissariat Ostland was the Nazi civil administration governing the occupied Baltic states and western Belarus from 1941. This 5 Punkte note belongs to the Punkte — "points" — currency system introduced for rationed goods distribution across the Ostland territories, a parallel instrument designed to sit alongside the Reichskreditkassenschein and ordinary Reichsmarks without replacing either.
Printed at the Lettlands Wertpapierdruckerei in Riga, the notes were produced using an occupied Latvian state printing facility. By 1943, Soviet forces were already reversing German gains in the east; the entire Ostland administrative apparatus would collapse within two years of this note's issue.