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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Strausberg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1281.1-2/6 |
| Obverse description | Diagonal lattice underprint in red and blue covers the entire field. To the left, the municipal coat of arms of Strausberg — a shield bearing a stork standing amid foliage — is rendered in a woodcut-style vignette within a decorative cartouche, with a serial number box in red below. To the right, the denomination '1/2 Mark', the title 'Stadtkassenschein Strausberg', the issue date '1. September 1921', the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat', and a list of municipal signatories are all rendered in elaborate Fraktur script, with a small printer's signature 'Böhm' at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Große Straße in Strausberg m. d. Landsberger Torturm aus dem 15. Jahrhundert ½ M. |
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Strausberg, a small Brandenburg town east of Berlin, issued notgeld like hundreds of German municipalities during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s. The city's fractional issues — including this half-mark — were stop-gap instruments, authorized locally to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage that had been hoarded or melted down as metal values outpaced face values.
The DeNG reference suffix indicating multiple varieties (1-2/6) suggests this type was issued across at least two distinguishable printings or signatories — worth examining closely if completeness matters to the collector.