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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Strausberg, City of (Der Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 98.3 × 58.2 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a diagonal red and blue hatched guilloche underprint ground. To the left, the Strausberg municipal coat of arms is presented as a vignette in a gothic shield cartouche, showing a stork standing on grass with a small red bird in its bill. The denomination '1/2 Mark' appears in gothic script at upper left, with the issuing authority inscribed in large blackletter text reading 'Stadtkassenschein Strausberg', the date '1. September 1921', the issuer line 'Der Magistrat', and multiple countersignatures in manuscript below; a serial number box in red at lower left carries the note number. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1/2 Mark Stadtkassenschein Strausberg 1. September 1921 Der Magistrat |
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Strausberg is a small Brandenburg town east of Berlin, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany as coin shortages made fractional currency practically useless in daily trade. The half-mark denomination is among the most purely functional in the notgeld universe — no collector premium was intended, no tourist series.
The DeNG reference suffix 1/6 indicates six distinct varieties in this denomination alone, likely differing in serial number blocks or minor typographic details rather than design overhauls.