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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Soltau |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott Und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in yellow, green, and orange tones and centres on a map of Germany with territories highlighted in orange to indicate areas under foreign occupation or dispute, overlaid with a patriotic verse in diagonal script. The denomination '1 Mark' appears in circular cartouches at upper left and upper right, flanked by oak-tree vignettes entwined with ribbons in the German national colours. A validity notice in German script at lower centre records the expiry date and bears the issuing authority designation 'S.V. SOLTAU' with a manuscript signature below. |
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Soltau is a small town in Lower Saxony, and this 1 Mark note is a product of Germany's Notgeld phenomenon — the wave of emergency municipal currency that flooded the country between 1914 and 1923 as metal coinage disappeared and the central monetary system buckled under wartime and postwar strain. By 1921, Notgeld had become as much a civic and commercial exercise as a practical one, with many towns commissioning elaborate designs to attract collectors, generating revenue in the process.
Whether this Soltau issue was produced for genuine circulation or primarily for the collector trade is the key question — and the answer affects its scarcity in genuinely circulated condition.