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1 Mark
| Issuer | Strausberg, City of (Der Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a cream ground overlaid with a diagonal cross-hatched underprint in red and blue. To the left, the municipal arms of Strausberg — an ostrich with a horseshoe in its beak on a blue shield — are rendered in a bold woodcut-style vignette framed by decorative scrollwork, with the denomination '1 Mark' lettered above in Gothic script. To the right, the title 'Stadtkassenschein Strausberg' is set in elaborate calligraphic Gothic lettering with ornamental flourishes, accompanied by the issue date '1. September 1921' and the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat', with a serial number cartouche in the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Eine Fahrt auf dem Straussee bei Strausberg. 1 M. |
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Strausberg is a small Prussian town east of Berlin, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its magistrate issued emergency paper — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice. The Böhm credit in the reference almost certainly indicates a local printing firm rather than a nationally recognized designer, which was typical of the decentralized Notgeld production model: towns contracted whoever was available and affordable.
The DeNG reference suffix listing variants 1-5/6 suggests at least minor typographic or color differences exist across the print run — worth examining if you encounter multiple examples side by side.