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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Seeth (Municipality of Seeth), Nordfriesland |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE SEETH 1.00 1.00 DÜSSE SCHIEN VER-LEERT SIEN GELTUNG 30. APRIL 1922 DÜSSE SCHIEN KANN INLÖST WARDEN BI UNS GEMEENDEKASS DE GEMEINDE ORST. EEN · MARK ENTW: INGWER PAULSEN U. HANS PHILIPP GEBM & KUNZE FLENSBURG |
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| Reverse lettering | 1M 1M DE SCHWIEN UN OK DE SHORTHORN BEST SÜND HIER RECHT GOD, DAT JEDER WEES; DAT BRINGT DE BUER NU VEEL VERKEHR DRUM STELLT HE NU DAT NOTGELD HER |
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Seeth is a village in the Schleswig marshlands — population in 1921 was under two hundred — which makes it one of the more improbable issuers in the entire German Notgeld corpus. The note was produced during the peak of the municipal emergency currency wave that followed the post-WWI economic dislocation, when even the smallest Gemeinden were authorized to plug the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage.
Ingwer Paulsen was a locally significant Frisian painter, and his involvement alongside Hans Philipp gives this particular issue an artistic pedigree disproportionate to the issuing authority's size. Gebr. & Kunze in Flensburg handled the printing — a regional press that serviced much of the Schleswig-Holstein Notgeld output during this period.
The reference number indicates three known varieties within this series.