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1 Mark
| Issuer | Hohenwestedt, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green foliate guilloche border with Iron Cross motifs at corners; central oval vignette with denomination numeral '1' flanked by laurel sprays on a yellow-ochre star underprint. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Photographic vignette of the Kirchspiel Hohenwestedt war memorial set in an open landscape, printed in sepia on a golden underprint. Village names of the parish form the outer border text on all four sides. |
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Hohenwestedt is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice. These local issues were sanctioned by necessity rather than any formal monetary authority, and the municipality's two signatories, Friedrich Senfin and Hans Martens, would have been local officials rather than banking professionals.
The DeNG reference places this within a well-documented series, suggesting at least two known signature or print variants exist for this denomination.