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1 Mark

Issuer Stadt Emden (Magistrat)
Year 1919
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Size 76 × 52 mm
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Obverse lettering Stadt Emden
SIEGEL DER STADT EMDEN
Gutschein über
Eine Mark
1 Mark
Magistrat
Bürg.-Vorst.-Koll.
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Reverse lettering Stadt Emden
SIEGEL DER STADT EMDEN
Dieser Schein gelangt bis zum
1. februar 1919 bei der Kämmereikasse
Emden zur Einlösung.
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Emden's municipal administration issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that swept German local governments in the immediate postwar period. The Magistrat — the town's governing body — was authorized to issue Kleingeldscheine as the Reichsbank struggled to supply adequate coin and small denomination notes to a population already exhausted by wartime privation and the disruptions of demobilization.

Emden was a North Sea port, and its local Notgeld issues are sometimes overshadowed by the more artistically elaborate municipal series from interior Westphalian towns. This 1 Mark piece is a straightforward administrative issue rather than a collectible novelty printing.

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