Catalog
1.50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Cranenburg (City of Cranenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CRANENBURG ANNO 1563 WallfahrtsKirche Grenzstation 75 PFENNIG 75 EINE MARK 50 PF. 75 PFENNIG 75 GUTSCHEIN DER STADT CRANENBURG Dieser Gutschein wird abgetrennt wie auch im Ganzen bei allen Kassen der Stadt in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach Aufkündigung. Cranenburg, 1.7.1921. Der Bürgermeister: Meller A. REIBMAYR GEBR PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 PFENNIG 75 GUTSCHEIN DER STADT CRANENBURG Dieser Gutschein wird abgetrennt wie auch im Ganzen bei allen Kassen der Stadt in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach Aufkündigung. Cranenburg, 1.7.1921 Der Bürgermeister: Meller GEBR PARCUS MÜNCHEN EINE MARK 50 PF. 5 Vier Schiebers gepackt, now geft et geen smere 75 PFENNIG 75 |
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Cranenburg — a small Rhine town on the German-Dutch border, known today as Kranenburg — issued this 1.50 Mark note amid the acute small-change shortage that gripped Weimar Germany in the early 1920s. The denomination itself is telling: 1.50 Mark was an awkward, non-round value that only made practical sense in a system where virtually any amount was better than no coin at all.
Gebrüder Parcus of Munich printed a large share of the better-quality Notgeld for Bavarian and Rhenish municipalities; A. Reibmayr's design credit here is comparatively rare on surviving Parcus commissions. Perforation as the sole security feature was typical of low-budget municipal issues but offered genuine deterrence against home printing.