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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Tondern (City of Tondern) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a panoramic view of the Tondern cattle market (Viehmarkt), rendered in a coloured lithographic style with figures, livestock, and farm buildings set against a tree-lined horizon and open sky. The denomination is inscribed at the top in ornate Fraktur script in both German and Danish — 'Eine Mark' and 'Een Mark' — flanking a small vignette of a cow, with the bilingual subtitle '(PLEBISCIT SLESVIG)' beneath, referencing the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite. Denomination numerals '1' appear in each corner of a multi-rule border with a geometric chain-link underprint frame, and the caption 'Viehmarkt d. Stadt Tondern' runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Mark Een Mark (PLEBISCIT SLESVIG) Viehmarkt d. Stadt Tondern 1 1 1 1 |
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Tondern sits in what is now the southernmost tip of Denmark — but in 1920, it was the center of one of the most consequential plebiscites of the post-WWI settlement. The Schleswig plebiscite divided the region into two zones, with Zone I (including Tondern) voting in February 1920. The city's notgeld issues, this mark among them, were produced precisely because the monetary situation was in flux: the German mark was still in use, but the political future of the territory was unresolved.
Tondern was formally ceded to Denmark in June 1920, after which Danish krone replaced the mark. This note's circulation window was weeks, not years.