One German WW I 5 Mark Note German Empire (Kaiserreich) / Darlehenskassenscheine bank notes were printed from 1914 - 1922. This one was printed on 5 August 1914 in Berlin. The serial number is D9923124. The Height is 80.00 mm and the Width is 25.00 mm. Darleh (e) nskassenscheine (loan notes) were issued from 1914-1922 in the German Empire from the National Debt Office in accordance Darlehnskassen Law of August 4, 1914 ( RGBl. Output S. 340) on the basis of a former Prussian Banknote Act. The bills, however, were formally not "real" bank notes but still had a cash value and were accepted by all government coffers. With the start of their emission at the beginning of the First World War, the Darlehnskassenscheine were by lending of industrial and agricultural goods legally covered. But like all other cash not in Goldmark exchangeable. In fact, they were a form of additional cash created during and after the First World War. They ran parallel to the Reichsbank notes, Reich Treasury notes, private bank notes as a fifth "Banknotenart" - in addition to the (tolerated) emergency money and other monetary surrogate of states, municipalities and large enterprises - to its total devaluation in 1923 in Germany. There were no price deviations between all five banknotes. From August 1923 there was briefly a sixth Banknotenart (so-called. "Wertbeständiges Token"), the return to the pre-war gold mark and the US dollar took directly into a price indication respect and not as the aforementioned Darlehnskassenscheine the devalued paper marks.