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5 Punkte

Issuer Reichskommissariat Ostland
Year 1943
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Printer Lettlands Wertpapierdruckerei, Riga
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Obverse lettering LETTLAND
OSTLAND SPINNSTOFFWAREN-PUNKTWERTSCHEIN
für Flachs- und Wollablieferung
AUSTRUMU APGABALU TEKSTILPRECU PUNKTU VĒRTSZĪME
par linu un vilnas nodošanu
FLACHS UND WOLLE - SEGEN DES LANDES
LINI UN VILNA - ZEMES SVĒTĪBA
Inhaber dieses Scheines ist berechtigt Spinnstoffwaren für fünf Punkte zu kaufen
Šis zīmes īpašniekam ir tiesības pirkt tekstilpreces piecu punktu vērtībā
5
PUNKTE
Ausgegeben auf Grund der Anordnung des Reichskommissars für das Ostland
Izdota uz Austrumu apgabalu Reichskomisāra rīkojuma pamata
DER REICHSKOMMISSAR FÜR DAS OSTLAND
Reverse description Plain cream paper reverse printed in dark brown letterpress. Bilingual text in German and Latvian lists examples of point values for various textile goods. Two circular eagle-and-swastika stamps appear at lower left and right. Validity date "Gültig bis zum 30. April 1945" / "Derīga līdz 1945. g. 30. aprīlim" is printed in bold italics at centre bottom, with the printer's imprint below.
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The Reichskommissariat Ostland was the Nazi civil administration governing the occupied Baltic states and western Belarus from 1941. This 5 Punkte note belongs to the Punkte — "points" — currency system introduced for rationed goods distribution across the Ostland territories, a parallel instrument designed to sit alongside the Reichskreditkassenschein and ordinary Reichsmarks without replacing either.

Printed at the Lettlands Wertpapierdruckerei in Riga, the notes were produced using an occupied Latvian state printing facility. By 1943, Soviet forces were already reversing German gains in the east; the entire Ostland administrative apparatus would collapse within two years of this note's issue.

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