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1 Mark
| Issuer | Bückeburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Green-toned note with a central vignette of the Bückeburg palace gate with uniformed guards; lower panel bears serial number, two facsimile signatures, and redemption text in a yellow underprint band. |
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| Reverse description | Colourful vignette of a woman in traditional Schaumburg regional costume beside a ploughing scene; lower yellow panel carries a strophe from the Low German poem 'Use Vaterland' by Dr. Bensen. |
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Bückeburg was the capital of the tiny state of Schaumburg-Lippe, and its municipal notgeld issues of 1921 came during the second, more elaborate wave of German emergency money — by which point many towns were producing notes primarily for the collector trade rather than genuine monetary need. Hauschild in Bremen was one of the more prolific printers serving this market, handling notgeld contracts for municipalities across northern Germany.
The DeNG reference places this among a numbered series of five variants, suggesting the city issued multiple designs simultaneously — a hallmark of the so-called "collector notgeld" phenomenon, where municipalities deliberately created sets to maximize philatelic revenue.