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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Hessisch Oldendorf |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Edler & Krische, Hanover, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Schau die Berge und die Fluren, Schau der Weser Silberband; Blicke mit gehobnm Herzen Auf dein schönes Heimatland! Schloß Schaumburg Wie hat es Gott so wohl bedacht, daß er das Schaumburger Ländchen macht. Wo kämen dann all die Schaumburger her, Denn wenn das Schaumburger Land nicht wör. Der Tag der Entwertung wird öffentlich bekannt gegeben. Hess.-Oldendorf, 1. Okt. 1921. Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | Blue and black reverse carries three side-by-side expressionist vignettes in a dark illustrative style: at left, a nocturnal village scene with a church steeple and figures; at centre, a dramatic allegorical composition of a tormented figure menaced by a grotesque winged demon amid rocky terrain; at right, a close-up of a chained or cliff-face motif. A blue header panel at top bears the issuer title and two lines of Gothic verse, while the lower blue panel contains a narrative prose passage in Gothic script; corner ornaments repeat the "1" and "MK" star devices in red and black. |
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Hessisch Oldendorf is a small town on the Weser in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had been worsening since the war years. Edler & Krische in Hanover were prolific producers of municipal Notgeld during this period, supplying dozens of Westphalian and Lower Saxon communities with competently printed but largely interchangeable local issues.
The DeNG reference distinguishes two varieties (.1 and .2), likely a serial or overprint difference rather than a plate change.