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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Itzehoe (City of Itzehoe), Holstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | W. Gente, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is designed in a bold Expressionist letterpress style, with the semicircular text arch 'NOTGELD DER STADT ITZEHOE IN HOLSTEIN' dominating the lower half, flanked by a concentric multicolour arc in grey, brown, and black at the centre base. The background is filled with repeating diagonal renditions of 'EINE MARK' in grey and brown across the entire field, creating a decorative underprint effect. The note carries printed text listing comparative price data for 1913 versus 1921, illustrating the effects of wartime inflation, with the serial number printed in the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | EINE MARK NOTGELD DER STADT ITZEHOE IN HOLSTEIN DIESE ANWEISUNG VERLIERT IHRE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 30. SEPTEMBER 1921. DIE EINLÖSUNG ERFOLGT IN DER STADTHAUPTS KASSE IN ITZEHOE. DER MAGISTRAT. 1. BÜRGERMEISTER. ES KOSTETEN IN ITZEHOE: 1913 / 1921: 1 KG. WOLLE: M·12- / M·240- 1 PAAR HERRENSTIEFEL: M·5- / M·75- 1 NORMALHEMD: M·3.75 / M·10 OBERHEMD: M·75 1 KG. KERNLEDER: M·0.50 / M·106- KRAGEN: M·10- / LEINE ZUR LEHR' UND ERINNERUNG GEDRUCKT BEI GENTE, HAMBG. Nº 25264 |
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Itzehoe is a small Holstein town on the Stör river, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency currency during the Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s as coin metal disappeared and the Reichsbank struggled to keep fractional denominations in circulation. This note is Notgeld in the strictest sense: a stopgap, not a speculative collectors' issue.
W. Gente was a Hamburg commercial printer with no particular standing in the numismatic world, which usually shows in the workmanship. Itzehoe's series is modestly produced.