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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Berleburg (City of Berleburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette occupies most of the note and presents a panoramic view of old Berleburg as it appeared in 1650, rendered in a coloured lithographic style with green hills, a town silhouette including a church tower and castle, and figures in the foreground landscape. Denomination panels in black and red with the numeral '1' and MARK appear at each upper corner. A red cartouche at foot bears the inscription ·ALT·BERLEBURG·1650· flanked by ornamental stops, while a bold black header panel at top reads GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BERLEBURG with two star ornaments. |
| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BERLEBURG 1 MARK ·ALT·BERLEBURG·1650· |
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Berleburg — now Bad Berleburg, in the Sauerland region of Westphalia — was a small market town with no particular monetary significance before the hyperinflationary pressures of the early 1920s forced municipal authorities across Germany to issue their own emergency currency. This note is part of that Notgeld wave: local administrations printing small denominations simply to keep commerce functional when Reichsbank notes were hoarded or unavailable in adequate supply.
Deutsche Handels-Druckerei in Barmen handled a considerable volume of municipal Notgeld contracts during this period, which kept per-unit costs low for small issuers like Berleburg. The DeNG reference subdivisions (.1-3/3) indicate at least three recognized variants within the type.