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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Hoyer (Municipality of Hoyer) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Hoyer, a shield divided into red and white fields bearing a sailing vessel, surmounted by a crenellated town gate with towers in full color. Guilloche-patterned borders frame the note on all sides, with the denomination numeral '1' at each corner, and the value inscription 'Eine Mark' running vertically along both lateral margins. Two text panels flanking the arms give validity and redemption conditions, dated 10. April 1920, with the serial number and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appearing in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central landscape vignette engraved by L. Thaysen, rendered in color and showing a rural road leading toward a village with a windmill on the left horizon, sheep grazing in the foreground, and sheaves of grain flanking the scene on both sides. An ornate geometric and foliate border in brown and gold tones encloses the composition, with decorative corner elements. The denomination 'Eine Mark' is inscribed in large Gothic script across the top of the note. |
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Hoyer — known today as Højer — sits in what was then the Danish-German borderland of Schleswig, a region whose political status had been contested since the 1864 war and was still unresolved in 1920 when this note was issued. The timing is not incidental: the Versailles-mandated plebiscites dividing Schleswig between Denmark and Germany were held in February and March of 1920, and Hoyer fell on the German side of the provisional line before ultimately transferring to Denmark that same year. Municipal notgeld issued at precisely this moment of administrative limbo carries an unusual kind of documentary weight.
The print figures in the data — 20,000 in 1885 and again in 1886 — almost certainly refer to catalog reference numbers rather than press runs, as those dates predate the note by over three decades.