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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Jakobsberg, Kreis Höxter |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on cream paper and centred on a line-engraved vignette of the Jakobsberg village church — a stone Romanesque tower adjoined by a lower nave, set among foliage — captioned below 'Kirche zu Jakobsberg'. To the left, text panels record the validity period ('Gültig bis zum 1. März 1922') and the issue date ('Jakobsberg, d. 5. Nov. 1921'), flanked by denomination roundels reading '1 mark' at lower left and lower right. At upper right a circular official municipality stamp reads 'Gemeinde Jakobsberg / Kreis Höxter', beneath which the facsimile signature of the Gemeindevorsteher (Bröker) appears. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Jakobsberg, Amt Beverungen, Kreis Höxter. Gültig bis zum 1. März 1922 Jakobsberg, d. 5. Nov. 1921. 1 mark 1 mark Kirche zu Jakobsberg. Gemeinde JAKOBSBERG Kreis Höxter Der Gemeindevorsteher |
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Jakobsberg is a small village in the Kreis Höxter district of Westphalia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921 it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage that had plagued everyday commerce since the war. These parish and village issues were technically illegal under imperial-era currency law but tolerated by the Reichsbank, which simply lacked the minting capacity to intervene.
Kreis Höxter municipal Notgeld from this period is modestly collected, but hyper-local Gemeinde issues like this one — from a single village rather than a town administration — tend to appear in smaller surviving quantities than the better-documented urban series.