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20 Reichsmark
| Issuer | Stadt Stuttgart (City of Stuttgart) |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The face is set against an overall guilloche underprint in beige and grey tones with a repeated floral rosette pattern. At centre, a large Fraktur inscription reads 'Zwanzig Reichsmark' below the heading 'Stadt Stuttgart / Gutschein über', with the denomination numeral '20' in bold at upper left and upper right. A grey watermark-style vignette of the Stuttgart Württemberg horse rampant appears as a central underprint, while a circular red official seal of the City of Stuttgart is affixed at lower left; the text below notes redeemability at all savings banks and commercial banks within the Stuttgart city district, an expiry date of 31 March 1946, the issue date of 1 May 1945, and the title of the Lord Mayor ('Der Oberbürgermeister') above a manuscript signature. The series designation 'REIHE 1' and serial number appear in red at lower right, with a counterfeiting warning at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 RM 20 RM |
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Stuttgart's municipal government issued this note in 1945 as part of a wave of locally produced emergency currency — Notgeld — that appeared across German cities in the final weeks of the war and immediately after. American forces entered Stuttgart on April 22, 1945, and French occupation followed within days; notes like this one existed in a genuinely uncertain legal space, issued by a civilian administration whose authority was rapidly being superseded by Allied military government currency.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was typically authorized for only a brief window before Allied Military Marks and later occupation currency displaced it. Surviving examples in circulated grades are not uncommon, but unissued remainder stocks were largely destroyed during administrative handovers.