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1 Mark
| Issuer | City of Paderborn (Notgeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Brown offset-printed notgeld on cream paper, dated Paderborn, den 10. Nov. 1921. The central vignette renders two blacksmiths in silhouette at an anvil, flanked to the left by a decorative wrought-iron grille panel and to the right by a large candelabrum (menorah). The denomination EINE MARK appears in large display lettering at the top, with a facsimile magistrate signature below; the lower register carries a four-line Westphalian dialect verse alongside the numeral 1 and the initial M in ornamental frames. The outer border bears the issuing authority legends of the Stadtsparkasse Paderborn on all four sides. |
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| Reverse description | Brown offset-printed reverse on cream paper, designed by P. Michels. The central vignette presents a detailed line-art view of the Busdorf church in Paderborn, with its Romanesque tower and Gothic steeple rising above surrounding foliage and lower buildings. Large decorative numeral 1 and the initial M appear in bold blocked frames on either side, each flanked by Art Nouveau-style floral corner ornaments. The caption BUSDORF · KIRCHE is lettered across the bottom register. |
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Paderborn's 1921 Notgeld series was among the thousands of municipal emergency issues that flooded Germany as coin shortages made small-denomination transactions impossible in the years following the First World War. The city contracted Gebrüder Parcus in Munich, a firm that handled a significant volume of Notgeld commissions during this period and produced work of consistently higher graphic quality than many municipal printers could manage locally.
The Michels design credit is relatively rare documentation for a Notgeld issue — most small-town emergency notes went to press without any named designer at all.