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1 Mark
| Issuer | Bückeburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | H.M. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 MARK • GUTSCHEIN FÜR 1 MARK JÄGER APPELL IN BÜCKEBURG AM 1.U.2.OKT. 1921 Dieser Schein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht bis zum 15. Oktober 1921 bei der Niedersächsischen Bank, Filiale der Dresdner Bank in Bückeburg zur Einlösung vorgelegt worden ist. Der Ausschuss Serie A H. HAUSCHILD, BREMEN |
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| Reverse lettering | BÜCKEBURG RATHAUS 1. Strophe des Gedichtes Dei Sünne schinnt so öwerall, Versteihst fik, bloß an'n Dage. üse Vaterland v. Dr. Bensen Dat et bi üs an besten is, Dat is gar keine Frage |
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Bückeburg was the capital of the tiny state of Schaumburg-Lippe, one of the smallest German principalities to survive into the Weimar period. This note is Notgeld — emergency municipal currency printed to address the catastrophic small-denomination coin shortage that gripped Germany through the early 1920s as metal hoarding and inflation hollowed out everyday commerce. Hundreds of German towns commissioned their own issues, and H.M. Hauschild in Bremen was among the more prolific printers serving that market.
Schaumburg-Lippe itself ceased to exist as a sovereign state in 1918; by 1921, Bückeburg was issuing this note as a city administration, not a ruling house.