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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiedenbrück (City of Wiedenbrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in orange and grey-brown on a light ground. The denomination "Eine Mark" appears in large Gothic lettering across the upper portion, flanked on each side by the numeral "1" in bold orange. A central vignette presents the circular municipal seal of Wiedenbrück in orange, bearing a depiction of a twin-towered church façade with a large key and a cartwheel, surrounded by the Latin legend "CIVS WEINBRVCK"; two armoured medieval figures holding spears or halberds flank the seal against a foliate background. Below the vignette, the text "Gutschein für den Geldverkehr" and "1.1. in der 1921." appear alongside two manuscript signatures with their respective titles — "Der Magistrat / Bürgermeister" on the left and "Die Stadtverordneten / Stadtverordnetenvorsteher" on the right — and the issuer name "Stadt Wiedenbrück" runs in large Gothic letters along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and blue on a light grey ground. The upper portion carries a three-line inscription in Low German dialect in bold Gothic script. Below it, a large woodcut-style vignette signed "Naubester 21" presents a street scene with traditional half-timbered houses, a crowd of figures in the foreground, and a tightrope walker balancing on a high wire above the rooftops. At the foot of the vignette, a blue panel carries the monogram "NB" in large Gothic letters alongside the text "Up'n Marktplatz Kamerrijenmaakers" and the denomination "Ei ne Mark" in blue Gothic type; the printer's imprint "Ad. Essich & Co., Oldenburg i. O." appears in small type at the very bottom. |
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Wiedenbrück was a small Westphalian town — population under 5,000 at the time — and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1921 placed it among the hundreds of German municipalities scrambling to fill the coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Notgeld program at this scale was almost entirely a municipal affair, with local administrations contracting whatever regional printer could deliver quickly. Ad. Essich & Co. in Oldenburg handled a substantial volume of small-town commissions during this period.
The designer credit to "Naubester" is uncommon enough to be worth noting — most Kleinnotgeld of this type went out unsigned or attributed only to the printer's in-house staff.