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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Münstermaifeld (City of Münstermaifeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large decorative scroll banner bearing the denomination inscription "Eine Mark" in bold red Gothic lettering, centred around the municipal coat of arms of Münstermaifeld — a shield displaying a fortified Romanesque collegiate church with twin towers surmounted by crosses, above a key motif. The year "1921" appears on a ribbon scroll at the top, flanked by ornamental foliage, with the entire composition set within a multi-ruled brown border. Below the vignette, a three-line text block in German script states the payment obligation of the Gemeindekasse, the validity clause, and the place and date "Münstermaifeld, im August 1921", followed by a manuscript signature above the title "Bürgermeister". |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT 1 Mk. Burg Eltz. MÜNSTERMAIFELD ALBERT FASTENRATH, ELBERFELD AUE 1-5 |
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Münstermaifeld is a small town in the Eifel region of the Rhineland, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Albert Fastenrath of Elberfeld was a mid-tier commercial printer who handled notgeld contracts for numerous minor municipalities during this period — competent work, not prestige printing.
The DeNG reference suffix ".1-4/4" indicates this is the fourth of four known variants in the 919 series, suggesting the city issued multiple notes across a short window rather than a single uniform run.