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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Burg an der Wupper (City of Burg an der Wupper) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 April 1922 |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse field is filled with a halftone reproduction of a painting in dark mauve-brown tones, depicting a medieval tournament scene with armoured knights on horseback and costumed spectators crowded along the right margin. The image is printed without a decorative border, allowing it to bleed to the inner edge of the note. Below the vignette, centred in Fraktur type, appears the caption identifying the scene. |
| Reverse lettering | Das Turnier |
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Burg an der Wupper — now absorbed into Solingen — was one of hundreds of German municipalities that printed their own emergency small-change notes during the early Weimar period, when coin metal was hoarded and official currency couldn't fill the gap. These Notgeld issues were authorized locally and had no standing beyond the issuing town's own commerce.
By 1921 the first wave of purely functional Notgeld was giving way to the so-called "collector Notgeld" phenomenon, where municipalities printed elaborate or thematic series specifically to sell to collectors, generating revenue in the process. Whether this 1 Mark note falls into that second category or represents genuine utility issue is worth determining before pricing.