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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Wolfenbüttel |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld note with a symmetrical layout centred on the bold gothic denomination inscription "EINE MARK", flanked by two ornate circular guilloche medallions each carrying the numeral "1" above the abbreviation "M". A small wreath vignette at the top centre encloses a rearing horse device, the heraldic symbol of Wolfenbüttel, while a red serial number is positioned in the upper right corner. Below the central text block, a two-line validity clause in gothic script is followed by the issuing authority line "Der Stadtmagistrat:" with three manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress reverse in a folk-art idiom characteristic of WWI-era German Notgeld, with the issuer heading "Notgeld der STADT WOLFENBÜTTEL" set in bold gothic type across the top. The central vignette presents the Wolfenbüttel column monument surmounted by a rearing horse finial, flanked by two stylised standing figures in an archaic decorative manner, each holding garlands. The denomination "1 M" is repeated in the two lower corners, with a multi-line text block beneath recording the legal authority for the issue. |
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Wolfenbüttel's municipal administration issued this 1 Mark Notgeld in 1918 as coins disappeared into hoarding and wartime metal requisitions left small-denomination circulation effectively paralyzed across Germany. Hundreds of towns printed their own emergency paper that year, but municipal issues from smaller Lower Saxon towns like Wolfenbüttel are proportionally scarcer than those from major industrial centers — the print runs were simply smaller, and few recipients kept them once the emergency passed.
The Stadtmagistrat had no printing infrastructure of its own; these were almost certainly contracted to a local commercial printer, which accounts for the variability in paper quality seen across surviving examples.