1 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen

This copy

Accession

OM-00182

Serial

15 585765

Series year

1940

Actually issued

1940

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VG (IBNS)

Edge tears, heavy wear. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$7 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

95.2 × 60.4 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

Second World WarOccupation currency

The type

Type

1 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — occupation currency

Ausgegeben auf Grund der Verordnung über Reichskreditkassen. Hauptverwaltung der Reichskreditkassen.

Issued under the ordinance on Reich Credit Banks — legal tender only in occupied territory, redeemable by the occupied country's own central bank

Symbology

Reichsadler with swastika

The eagle of the Third Reich on money valid only where the Wehrmacht stood.

What was happening

A Reichskreditkassenschein — occupation currency, issued by the German military administration in territories the Wehrmacht held and legal tender only there.

The mechanism was extraction. German forces were paid in these, spent them locally, and the occupied country's central bank was obliged to redeem them — so the occupation financed itself out of the occupied economy. They were used across Poland, France, the Low Countries, the Balkans and the occupied Soviet territories.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 1 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen in the collection.