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1 Mark
| Issuer | Philippsthal, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is laid out in a tripartite composition within a gold and dark border. The central vignette presents the elaborate polychrome coat of arms of the House of Hesse-Rotenburg, supported by two rampant golden lions and surmounted by a crown, set against a blue oval ground with decorative scrollwork. The left panel bears the municipal arms of Philippsthal with crossed mining tools on a red and white field and the motto "Glück auf! / Hiermit ein rei Geschlecht", while the right panel carries a white shield with a red cross and the legend "Standhaft und treu!"; denomination panels reading "Eine Mark" appear in the upper corners of each side panel. The lower margin carries the issuing inscription in Gothic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Mark Glück auf! Hiermit ein rei Geschlecht Standhaft und treu! Philippsthal an der Werra am 1. Oktober 1921 Der Gemeindevorstand. |
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Philippsthal is a small municipality on the Werra river in Hesse, and like hundreds of German towns in 1921 it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that plagued postwar Germany. These hyper-local issues were printed in enormous variety during 1920–1922, often by regional printers on short contracts, with municipalities exercising near-total design freedom. Many were produced as much for sale to collectors as for actual use in trade.
The DeNG reference indicates this survives in at least two known varieties (suffix .1-2), suggesting the municipality ran more than one print order.