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| Issuer | Magistrat zu Brakel, City of Brakel (Kreis Höxter) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Brakel Kreis Höxter Notgeld 1 M Gültig bis zum 1. März 1922 Brakel, den 1. Juni 1921 Der Magistrat Sanct Annen-Kapelle |
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| Reverse lettering | Dat Mäken von Brakel Et gien mal'n Mäken von Brakel na de fünt Unnen Kapellen uner de Hinnenborg, un weil et gjerne 'n Mann hegen wulle un ock meinde, et wäre süs neimes in de Kapellen, sau sunk et "O hilge sünte Unne, help mie doch balb tom Manne. Du kennst'n ja wull: He wuhnt var'm Guttwerdore hed gele Hore: Du kennst'n ja wull." De Köster stand awerst hünner de Altare un höre dat da rep he mit'ner gans schrögerigen Stimme: "du kriggstn nig, du kriggstn nig." Dat Mäken awerst meinde dat Marienkinneken, bat bie de Mudber Anne steht, hedde üm dat to ropen, da war et beuse un reip: "Pepperlepep, bumme Blae, halt de Schnouten un lat de Möhme kühren (die Mutter reden)." |
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Brakel is a small market town in the Teutoburg Forest region, and its municipal emergency money — Notgeld — belongs to the enormous wave of locally issued scrip that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922 as coin shortages made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The Magistrat zu Brakel had no special printing authority; like hundreds of other German municipalities, it simply commissioned notes to fill the gap left by the Reichsbank's inability to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage during the postwar economic dislocation.
The DeNG reference places this among the documented Kleingeldscheine of Kreis Höxter — a district that produced a disproportionate number of collector-targeted issues in this period, though Brakel's series is modest by those standards.