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1 Mark
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Erbach im Odenwald |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 110 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in grey-green and ochre tones, with a decorative chain border enclosing an orange header band bearing the issuer's title at top and denomination numeral '1' in corner cartouches. A central oval vignette presents a traditionally dressed peasant woman holding a sheaf of grain, set before a half-timbered Odenwald farmhouse, flanked by symmetrical arrangements of wheat ears, roses, and fruit in orange underprint. Redemption text in Gothic script flanks the vignette on either side, with the place and date 'Erbach i. Odw. im Nov. 1918' at centre-bottom, a facsimile signature to the lower right, and a circular heraldic lion watermark stamp to the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld des Kreises Erbach im Odenwald 1 Mark Dieses Notgeld wird eingelöst frühestens am 1. April 1919 nach vorher erfolgter Veröffentlichung in den Gemeinden des Kreises. Erbach i. Odw. im Nov. 1918 Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Erbach i. Odw. Wer Notgeldscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in den Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter 2 Jahren bestraft. |
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Erbach im Odenwald is a small administrative district in Hesse, and its Kreisausschuss — the elected county executive committee — issued this note as part of the vast wave of municipal and regional Notgeld that flooded Germany in 1918 as coin hoarding stripped small-denomination metal currency from everyday commerce. The county-level issuer rather than a town or savings bank makes this a slightly less common administrative type within the Notgeld collecting field.
The 1918 dating places it in the first, more practically motivated phase of German Notgeld — before the post-1920 novelty issues produced deliberately for collectors.