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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Burg in Dithmarschen (Municipality of Burg in Dithmarschen) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into two vertical panels printed in brown and olive tones on cream paper. The left panel carries the denomination legend "Een Mark" in bold Gothic blackletter at upper left, beneath which a landscape vignette renders a panoramic view of Burg with a windmill, church steeple, and waterway in the distance. Below the vignette, a text cartouche in Low German script states the validity conditions, the issue date "den 24. Mai 1916", and is signed by municipal officials on behalf of "De Kaspels-Gemeen". The right panel presents a smaller vignette of a two-masted sailing vessel moored at a quayside with figures on shore, surmounted by a Low German motto in Gothic script. |
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| Reverse lettering | In true Arbeit röhrt de Hann, denn fnied wi ok de hütgen Bann. Notgeld ut dat Kaspel Burg s/s 1 M |
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Burg in Dithmarschen is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1916, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — as the war drained metal coinage from circulation. The Reichsbank could not supply enough small change to meet everyday demand, so local authorities, savings banks, and even private businesses filled the gap with their own scrip, valid only within the issuing community.
This early wartime Notgeld predates the more elaborate printed series that flooded Germany from 1918 onward. The 1916 municipal issues tend to be plainer, made under genuine necessity rather than the collector-driven production that later corrupted the category.