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| Emittent | Stadt Querfurt (City of Querfurt) |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
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| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The obverse is dominated by a large central octagonal vignette of the historic city seal of Querfurt, rendered in deep red and brown tones, showing the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child encircled by the Latin legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS. The denomination '1 Mark' appears in bold red letterpress in panels to the left and right of the seal, against a yellow-ochre underprint with decorative borders. Validity and issuance text in Gothic script is printed in the lower left and lower right corners, with a facsimile magistrate signature at lower right. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenlegende | Die Quernestadt Querfurt in alter Zeit Gut für eine Mark |
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| Anmerkungen |
Querfurt is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1921 places this note squarely in Germany's Notgeld period — when municipal authorities, businesses, and even individual firms printed their own fractional notes to compensate for a chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage. J. A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was one of the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling commissions from municipalities across Germany.
Heinz Schiestl was a Würzburg-based illustrator and woodcut artist whose work appeared on numerous Notgeld issues — his involvement here is the one detail that lifts this note above the purely municipal and into the realm of applied graphic art.