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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Plön (City of Plön) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned note with a decorative chain border framing the entire field. At centre, the circular municipal seal of Plön displays a fortified gateway with a shield above and two fish below, encircled by the legend STADTWAPPEN · PLOENER · and the date 1236, set within a sunburst radiating lines across the field. The denomination '1 MARK' appears in bold letterpress to the left and right of the vignette, with wavy underprint lines in the lower half. The issue date and expiry notice are inscribed at upper left, a serial number with letter prefix at upper right, and two manuscript facsimile signatures appear at the lower left and right beneath the authority designations DER MAGISTRAT and DAS STADTVERORDNETENKOLLEGIUM. |
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| Reverse description | Full-colour pictorial vignette occupying the upper three-quarters of the note, rendered in a watercolour lithographic style signed by H. Scheffler, showing a panoramic view of Plön as seen from the lake, with Plön Castle and the tall spire of St. Nikolai Church rising above wooded hillsides, sailboats on the foreground water under a warm yellow sky. Below the vignette, the denomination cartouche '1 Mark' in an ornamental wreath is flanked on either side by a two-stanza verse in Gothic lettering attributed to Emanuel Gurlitt, all within a decorative border. The heading GUTSCHEIN DER STADT PLÖN appears in bold Gothic type across the top. |
| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT PLÖN 1 Mark MEIN HEIMATLAND, WIE BIST DU SCHÖN! WER ZÄHLT DIE PERLEN, DIE DICH KRÖNEN? DOCH OBENAN STRAHLST DU, MEIN PLÖN, DER SCHÖNSTEN EINE VON DEN SCHÖNEN. EMANUEL GURLITT H. SCHEFFLER. BERLIN |
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