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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Alfeld (Leine) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green and black on pale cream paper, the obverse carries the issuer inscription STADT ALFELD (LEINE) across the top with a serial number to the right. A central guilloche vignette of radiating fan-work and scroll ornaments frames a horizontal cartouche bearing the denomination EINE MARK in bold letterpress. The date Alfeld (Leine), 1. Dezember 1918 appears below, flanked by the authority lines Der Magistrat and Das Bürgervorsteheherkollegium with two manuscript signatures beneath each. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT ALFELD (LEINE) * Nr. GUTSCHEIN ÜBER EINE MARK Alfeld (Leine), 1. Dezember 1918. Der Magistrat Das Bürgervorsteheherkollegium |
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Alfeld an der Leine is a small industrial town in Lower Saxony, best known today for the Fagus Factory — but in 1918 it was issuing Notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities scrambling to fill the coin shortage created by wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. The Reichsbank simply could not keep small denominations in circulation.
J. C. König & Ebhardt were a Hanover printing house with a long commercial stationery background, pressed into service for municipal emergency currency across the region. Their output was competent but not distinguished.