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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schüttorf (City of Schüttorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Mark Stadtgemeinde Schüttorf den 1. Nov. 1921 Der Magistrat Dieser Schein dient dem Verkehre mit der Kämmereikasse. Er wird ungültig einen Monat nach Bekanntmachung. Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large bird's-eye-view cartographic vignette of the medieval walled town of Schüttorp, rendered in fine black line engraving on a beige ground, with streets, buildings, gates, and surrounding waterways labelled in period script including 'Berge', 'Veirbrake', 'Vooporta', 'Bentemer Stegge', 'Altensh. Schüttrup', 'Vechta', 'Möller', 'Gasthus', and 'S. Spinbus'. Denomination numerals '1' and the Gothic monogram 'Mp' appear in red at each corner. A continuous band of Low German verse text in Gothic script runs along all four margins, referencing Count Egbert and the founding of Schüttorf in 1294. |
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Schüttorf is a small town in Lower Saxony, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 places this note in the second wave of German emergency currency — the period when municipalities were printing not out of genuine coin shortage but because the collector market had made notgeld a minor revenue stream. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer who handled a number of these municipal commissions, working to order rather than to any artistic brief.
Whether this note saw meaningful local circulation or went straight into philatelic envelopes is the real question with issues from this period.