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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Strausberg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a diagonal red and blue plaid underprint. To the left, the municipal coat of arms of Strausberg — a teal shield bearing a stork with a sun motif — is rendered in a woodcut style, with a serial number cartouche in red beneath it. To the right, the issuing authority and denomination are inscribed in Gothic Fraktur script, with ornamental flourishes and a facsimile of the magistrate's signatures arranged in two lines at the lower right, below the date of issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | ½ Mark Stadtkassenschein Strausberg 1. September 1921 Der Magistrat Nr. 31884 |
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Strausberg is a small Brandenburg town east of Berlin, and its 1921 Notgeld issues were products of the broader municipal currency emergency that swept Germany as postwar inflation made Reichsmark coinage disappear from circulation almost entirely. The Stadtkasse — the municipal treasury, not a bank — functioned here as the issuing authority, which was common among smaller towns that lacked a local savings institution willing to take on the administrative burden.
The reference suffix range (1-4/6) indicates this is one of several design variants within the series, a typical feature of Strausberg's output, which was produced locally rather than by one of the major specialist Notgeld printers.