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 GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse of the combined sheet mirrors the two-voucher format, with the upper half repeating the Gutschein panel on guilloche underprint bearing the serial number and the legend DER STADT CRANENBURG, accompanied by the validity text in German script dated Cranenburg, 1.7.1921 and signed by the Bürgermeister, with the printer's imprint GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN below. The central perforated band again reads EINE MARK 50 PF. in white on green. The lower half bears a humorous genre vignette numbered 6, illustrating two figures standing before a wire fence beside a large pile of smuggled goods including barrels labelled Olie and crates labelled Kaffie, captioned in local Low Rhenish dialect above the scene; green triangular corner cartouches carry the denomination numerals 75, with PFENNIG in red across the lower register. |
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Cranenburg — today Kranenburg, on the Dutch border in the Lower Rhine district — issued this 1.50 Mark note during the acute small-change shortage that plagued German municipalities in the early 1920s before hyperinflation rendered the problem moot in a different way. The denomination itself is telling: 1.50 Mark sits in an awkward gap that no Reichsbank note was filling at the time, which is precisely why towns were printing their own.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a substantial volume of Notgeld commissions from Bavarian and Rhenish municipalities during this period. A. Reismayr's involvement as designer is noted in the plate credits, though attributing individual artistic responsibility across the firm's high-volume municipal work is rarely straightforward.