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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Stavenhagen (City of Stavenhagen) |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour design printed in red, yellow, black and green on cream paper, enclosed within a red border. A central medallion on a yellow ground bears a portrait bust of the Low German poet Fritz Reuter, identified by a grey ribbon banner above; the medallion is surrounded by a decorative garland of daisies and cornflowers. Flanking the medallion are two large stylised numeral '1' devices in black, yellow and red, interspersed with ears of wheat and floral motifs. The heading 'NOTGELD DER STADT STAVENHAGEN' runs across the top, a cursive Low German quotation attributed to Reuter appears below it, and the denomination 'EINE MARK' is set in bold lettering at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT STAVENHAGEN Wenn Einer frie is, ward frie frie, dann kann frie nicht freier sein, ob frie will. — FRITZ REUTER EINE MARK |
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Stavenhagen is a small Mecklenburg town best known as the birthplace of Fritz Reuter, the Low German dialect writer — a detail that has nothing to do with this note but explains why the town exists in any reference work at all. Municipal notgeld of this type emerged from the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's wartime metal requisitions, with cities and towns across the country authorized to issue small-denomination emergency paper from around 1916 onward. Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei in Schwerin was a court printer with genuine production credentials, so this is not the crude local printing that characterizes the worst of provincial notgeld.
The watermark security feature is worth noting — many comparable municipal issues dispensed with it entirely.