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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eickel (Municipality of Eickel) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Golden brown and black letterpress print on firm white paper with dark blue underprint. Municipal coat of arms of Eickel at center, surrounded by the denomination and issuing authority text. The note bears official authorization text including redemption terms, issue date of 1 March 1921, and spaces for the signatures of the Amtmann and Gemeindevorsteher. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse with no additional design elements, consistent with standard Notgeld issue practice for this series. |
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Eickel was a small industrial town in the Ruhr, absorbed into the newly created city of Wanne-Eickel in 1926. This note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany following the postwar collapse of small-denomination coinage — by 1921 the shortage was acute enough that even minor communes were commissioning their own emergency scrip from regional printers.
Fr. Siepmann in Essen handled a considerable volume of Ruhr-area Notgeld during this period. The designer credit "Goldscol" appears on a number of pieces from this printer's output, though the name has not been firmly attributed to an individual.