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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Stavenhagen (City of Stavenhagen) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress vignette on cream paper within a rectangular border, centred on a detailed view of the Stavenhagen Town Hall, identified by flanking ribbon banners as 'Das Rathaus in Stavenhagen' and 'Fritz Reuters Geburtshaus'. The denomination 'EINE MARK' appears in bold white lettering on a solid black panel below the vignette, with two facsimile signatures of municipal officials above the validity clause 'Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach Bekanntmachung' along the lower margin. The title 'NOTGELD DER STADT STAVENHAGEN' is set in the upper border panel, and the printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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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.