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10 Mark/Marok West Russian Volunteer Army
| Issuer | West Russian Volunteer Army (Freiwillige Westarmee) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Marks |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on a pale green fine floral guilloche underprint enclosed within a decorative scrollwork border with large corner numerals '10'. The heading 'KASSENSCHEIN' appears at the top in bold lettering, below which the denomination 'ZEHN MARK' is set in large ornate gothic type. A text panel in German script occupies the centre, stating the issuing authority and redemption terms, with the place and date 'Mitau, 10. Oct. 1919' in italic. A framed anti-counterfeiting warning is printed at the foot of the note. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper. |
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The West Russian Volunteer Army — a German-officered force operating in the Baltic under Colonel Bermondt-Avalov — issued this note during its brief, chaotic campaign in late 1919. The dual-currency denomination, Mark and Marok, reflects an attempt to claim legitimacy across two linguistic communities: German-speaking Baltic Germans and the local Latvian population the army was ostensibly helping liberate from Bolshevism, but in practice was terrorizing.
Printed in Mitau while Latvian national forces were actively fighting to expel Bermondt-Avalov's troops, these notes had almost no acceptance. The army collapsed by December 1919, and the currency with it.