5 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen
Reichskreditkassenschein — Fünf Reichsmark
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00560
- Serial
- H 1774201
- Series year
- 1940
- Actually issued
- 1940
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- AU (IBNS)
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
- $36 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-03.
- Dimensions
- 119.4 × 59.3 mm (±3.1, from the scan)
- Themes
- Second World WarOccupation currency
The type
- Type
- 5 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen
- Printer
- Not established
- Rarity
- common
Inscriptions
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
- Youth and labourer
- Two portraits — a young farmer and an industrial worker — the agriculture-and-industry pairing of Nazi "blood and soil" imagery.
- Reichsadler with swastika
- The eagle of the Third Reich on money valid only where the Wehrmacht stood.
What was happening
A Reichskreditkassenschein, the occupation currency issued by the German military administration and valid only in the territories the Wehrmacht held. The mechanism was extraction: German forces were paid in these notes, spent them locally, and the occupied country's central bank had to redeem them.
The 5 Reichsmark, undated (circulated from about 1940), carries two portraits — a farming youth and an industrial labourer — the "blood and soil" pairing of agriculture and industry favoured in Nazi iconography, with a memorial motif on the back. Part of the same family as the 1, 2, 20 and 50 Reichsmark notes ([[germany-1-reichsmark-reichskreditkassen]], [[germany-2-reichsmark-reichskreditkassen]], [[germany-20-reichsmark-reichskreditkassen]], [[germany-50-reichsmark-reichskreditkassen]]).
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 5 Reichsmark, Reichskreditkassen in the collection.
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