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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Passau (City Council of Passau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld note printed on plain paper, with an ornate Art Nouveau border of scrollwork and decorative panels framing a central octagonal vignette. Within the octagon, the large stylised denomination numeral '1 M' is overprinted in rust-red, surmounted by the issuing authority inscriptions and flanked by serial number panels on the left and right margins. The lower portion carries two rectangular text cartouches referencing Hans Serl and his epithet as court jester to six prince-bishops of Passau, with two facsimile signatures below the date line. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT PASSAU PASSAU IM JUNI 1921. STADTRAT 1. Bürgermeister Stadtkämmerer /hans Serl// †1565, PASSAU hofnarr unter 6 Fürstbischöfen. |
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Passau's municipal notgeld of 1921 falls within the second wave of German emergency money — the so-called "Serienscheine" phase, when towns increasingly used small-denomination paper issues as a revenue stream and local souvenir trade rather than purely out of necessity. By 1921 the acute coin shortage of 1918–1919 had eased, but the market for collectible notgeld had its own momentum, and many Stadtrat issues were printed in deliberate series to exploit philatelic demand.
The DeNG reference places this within a numbered subseries, suggesting multiple design variants were issued simultaneously under the same municipal authority.