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50 Mark
| Issuer | Residenzstadt Eisenach (City of Eisenach) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Eisenach coat of arms — St George in a shield, clad in chainmail and carrying a cross-bearing shield — set against a red ground, with crossed hammers in each upper corner and a large star at the top centre. A raised white embossed stamp in the lower centre repeats the coat of arms, flanked left and right by manuscript signatures. All principal text is arranged in letterpress around the central design. |
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| Protection description | Pattern of six-pointed stars. |
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Eisenach's municipal administration issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that devolved limited money-printing authority to German towns and cities during the final year of the war. The Hofbuchdruckerei H. Stahle was a local court printer — a Hofbuchdruckerei designation indicating a firm holding a royal or ducal warrant — pressed into service for what the issuing authority presumably expected to be a short-term measure.
The watermark is the only security feature standing between this and outright forgery, modest protection for a denomination that represented real purchasing power in a collapsing wartime economy.