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1 Mark
| Issuer | Süsel, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Local emergency currency (Notgeld) issued by the municipality of Süsel, with the denomination '1 Mark' rendered in bold letterpress text within a simply framed layout. The issuer's name and place of issue appear as the central legend, accompanied by the date of issue and authorizing signatures or seals typical of municipal Notgeld. The overall design is characteristic of small-town German emergency notes of the early 1920s, with plain typographic composition on unadorned paper stock. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this municipal Notgeld note carries standard legal and redemption text in German, affirming the note's validity and the issuing authority's obligation to redeem it at face value. The layout is typographic, consistent with the economical printing practices employed by H. G. Rahtgens of Lübeck for small-denomination emergency currency of this period. |
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Süsel is a small rural commune in Holstein, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1920 places it among the thousands of German municipalities that stepped into the currency vacuum left by chronic small-change shortages in the post-WWI period. By 1920 the first wave of emergency money had already crested; most towns had moved on. A commune this size issuing paper at that point, rather than the earlier cardboard series, is mildly unusual.
H. G. Rahtgens was a Lübeck commercial printer with no particular distinction in notgeld production — a workaday local choice, not a specialist firm like Flemming & Wiskott.