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1 Mark
| Issuer | Amt Datteln (Landkreis Recklinghausen, Prussian province of Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 121 x 75 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Amtskasse und die Gemeindekassen des Amtes Datteln nehmen die Kriegs-Wechsel-Scheine als vollgültiges Zahlungsmittel für Steuern und Abgaben, Zinsen und für alle sonstigen Zahlungen an. Für die vollwertige Einwechselung dieses Kriegs-Wechsel-Scheines haftet das Amt Datteln mit seinem ganzen Vermögen und Einkommen. Gültig bis 1. April 1915. Druckerei- u. Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. zu Lütgendortmund. |
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| Protection type | Coloured stripe |
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Datteln's municipal office issued this note in the opening weeks of the First World War, when the German government's emergency decrees of August 1914 triggered a nationwide small-change crisis. Coin hoarding was immediate and severe, and hundreds of German municipalities scrambled to produce their own Notgeld to keep local commerce moving. The Amt Datteln — a rural administrative district rather than a town with a developed financial infrastructure — turned to the Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft in nearby Lütgendortmund, a regional commercial printer with no particular banknote pedigree.
The coloured stripe was a minimal concession to security, typical of these rushed wartime municipal issues where anti-counterfeiting sophistication was less important than speed of production.