10 Punkte

The Reichskommissar für das Ostland — the Nazi civil administration governing the occupied Baltic states and parts of Byelorussia — issued these Punkte notes as a rationing currency, not a monetary one. They were specifically designed to control the distribution of goods, running parallel to the Reichskreditkassenscheine and occupation Reichsmarks already circulating in the region. Punkte translates simply as "points," and the system was deliberately divorced from price: a consumer needed both money and the correct number of points to complete a purchase.

Printing was handled locally by Lettlands Wertpapierdruckerei in Riga, the Latvian state securities printer that had been producing official documents since the interwar independence period and was pressed into German administrative service after the occupation in 1941.