Catalog
1.50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Kranenburg |
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| Value | 1.50 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Notgeld issue presents the denomination and issuing authority in letterpress typography, with the value '1½ Mark' set within a decorative border typical of early twentieth-century German emergency currency. The text identifies the municipality of Kranenburg as the issuing body, framed by ornamental guilloche-style panel work. The overall layout reflects the standardised format employed by Gebrüder Parcus for small-denomination municipal issues of the period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries printed text confirming the legal basis and conditions of the note's circulation, consistent with Notgeld issues of the World War I and post-war era. A decorative border frames the central text block, with typographic ornaments in the corners. The printing style is consistent with the letterpress production associated with the Gebrüder Parcus printing house. |
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Kranenburg is a small town in the Lower Rhine district near the Dutch border, and its decision to issue a 1.50 Mark denomination points directly to the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities in the early Notgeld period — fractional values like this one were printed specifically because coins had vanished from circulation. The Gebrüder Parcus firm in Munich was one of the more prolific Notgeld printers of the era, supplying dozens of small issuers across southern and western Germany with competently produced emergency notes at scale.
The 1.50 Mark face value is itself uncommon — most municipal issuers stuck to round figures.