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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Querfurt (City of Querfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red, black, and yellow-gold tones on cream paper. At centre, a large octagonal vignette reproduces the municipal seal of Querfurt in red, showing the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child surrounded by a Latin legend reading 'SIGILLVM CIVITATIS'. The denomination '1 Mark' appears in red at lower left and lower right, flanking the seal, while a scroll banner at top bears the inscription 'Gutschein der Stadt Querfurt' in Gothic lettering. The validity clause and issue date 'Querfurt, den 24. August 1921' with the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appear at the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Querfurt 1 Mark Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültig- keit 1 Monat nach erfolgter Aufforderung in den hiesigen Blättern. Querfurt, den 24. August 1921 |
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Querfurt is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and this note belongs to the enormous wave of German municipal Notgeld that flooded circulation between 1919 and 1922 — not from genuine emergency, but largely because local authorities realized collectors would hoard the notes and the issuing town would pocket the face value as pure profit. By 1921 the phenomenon had become openly commercial.
J.A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was one of the specialist printers who built their business almost entirely on this trade, producing Notgeld runs for dozens of municipalities simultaneously.