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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiedenbrück (City of Wiedenbrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in orange and grey-brown on a light ground, with large Gothic-script numeral '1' at each lateral margin and the denomination 'Eine Mark' across the top in ornate blackletter. The central vignette presents the municipal seal of Wiedenbrück — an orange roundel bearing a key, twin church towers, and a cartwheel, encircled by the legend 'SIGILLVM CIVES WIEDENBRVCK' — flanked by two armoured medieval warrior figures. Below the vignette, two manuscript facsimile signatures appear alongside their respective official titles, with the issuing text 'Gutschein für den Geldverkehr' and the date '1.1. in der 1921' set above the bold issuer name 'STADT WIEDENBRÜCK' at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Mark 1 SIGILLVM CIVES WIEDENBRVCK Gültig bis auf öffentliche Bekanntmachung Widerruf durch Bekanntmachung Der Magistrat Bürgermeister Die Stadtverordneten Stadtverordnetenvorsteher Gutschein für den Geldverkehr 1.1. in der 1921. STADT WIEDENBRÜCK |
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Wiedenbrück is a small Westphalian town, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German emergency currency — the so-called "Serienscheine" period, when municipalities increasingly treated small-denomination notgeld as a collectors' commodity rather than a genuine monetary stopgap. Ad. Eßich & Co. in Oldenburg handled a substantial volume of these municipal commissions, producing competent if unremarkable work for dozens of towns across northern and western Germany.
The Nausester designer credit is uncommon enough to note — most Eßich-printed issues of this type go uncredited.