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1 1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Trittau (Municipality of Trittau, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Size | 79 x 53 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette in multicolour letterpress print showing a street view of Bahnhofstraße in Trittau, with gabled residential and commercial buildings under a light blue sky. Decorative scroll banners frame the composition: the word "Notgeld" appears on the upper scroll, the denomination "1½ Mark" is repeated in the upper left and upper right corners, and the lower scroll carries the issuing locality inscription. Red hatched ornamental corner pieces accent the design. |
| Reverse lettering | 1½ Mark Notgeld 1½ Mark Bahnhofstraße Für Trittau i/Holst. |
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Trittau was a small market town in Holstein with a population well under a thousand when this note was issued during the First World War notgeld period. Municipal authorities across Germany were forced into emergency currency issuance after coin hoarding stripped small denominations from circulation entirely — Trittau's local government was no exception. The 1½ Mark denomination is itself a product of that crisis arithmetic: issuers combined values to cover the specific change gaps left by vanishing Pfennig coinage.