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2 Mark Moselbrücke Cochem-Coud
| Issuer | Moselbrücke Cochem-Coud (Bridge Authority) |
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| Year | 1945-1949 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff paper ticket printed in black letterpress, divided into three horizontal registers by ruled borders. The upper register carries the title 'Brückenschein' at left and a six-digit serial number at right. The central register bears the issuing authority name 'Cochem-Coud' in bold type, flanked on the right by the denomination '2 Mk.' struck in red. The lower register contains the conditions of use text in smaller roman type. A second impression of the serial number appears in the left margin stub, intended for separation upon validation. |
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| Obverse lettering | Brückenschein Für die Benutzung der Moselbrücke Cochem-Coud ist das tarifmäßige Brückengeld von 2 Mk. entrichtet worden. Dieser Schein ist während des Aufenthaltes auf der Brücke aufzubewahren und den mit der Kontrolle beauftragten auf Verlangen vorzuzeigen. (Translation: Bridge ticket. For the use of the Moselle bridge Cochem-Coud the standard bridge toll of 2 Marks has been paid. This ticket must be retained while on the bridge and presented upon request to persons charged with its inspection.) |
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The Moselbrücke at Cochem was destroyed in March 1945 during the Wehrmacht's retreating demolitions, and the bridge authority subsequently issued toll-replacement or reconstruction-levy scrip as a local financing mechanism during the postwar rebuilding period. Notes of this type — issued by civil infrastructure bodies rather than municipal savings banks or occupation authorities — are among the more obscure categories of German Notgeld from the 1945–1949 window, predating the June 1948 currency reform that rendered most such instruments worthless overnight.
Surviving examples are genuinely uncommon; reconstruction scrip rarely stayed in private hands once the issuing authority wound down.