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1 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Danzig |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note with a black undulating rectangular border enclosing the text field, set over a yellow geometric guilloche underprint. The entire design is typeset in a spare, utilitarian letterpress style consistent with emergency wartime notgeld production. No vignette or pictorial element is present. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ungültig! Sparkasse der Stadt Danzig. |
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Danzig's municipal authority issued this note in August 1914 as an emergency measure, one of hundreds of German city and county administrations that resorted to locally printed Notgeld when the outbreak of war triggered an immediate hoarding of coin and the regular banking system seized up. The Magistrat had neither a professional banknote printer nor time to engage one — the result is a note produced under obvious constraint, with the city itself serving as both issuing authority and effective guarantor.
The 1914 Danzig municipals are among the earliest German wartime emergency issues. P#2 is the 1 Mark denomination in what was a small series covering urgent day-to-day transaction values.