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1 Mark
| Issuer | Kreis Eckernförde (District of Eckernförde) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width vignette in brown and ochre tones illustrating a dramatic naval battle scene, with a large sailing warship under cannon fire in the foreground and a second vessel in the middle distance, both flying Danish ensigns — a clear allusion to the Battle of Eckernförde of 5 April 1849. The composition is framed by an oak-leaf border in letterpress. Denomination numerals '1 M' and 'M 1' appear in the upper corners, and the date '5. APRIL 1849' is inscribed along the lower edge. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 M M 1 5. APRIL 1849 |
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Eckernförde is a small coastal district in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own notgeld to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage that persisted well into the early Weimar years. The district-level issues are among the more obscure in notgeld collecting — overshadowed by the elaborate "series" notgeld produced by larger towns for the collector market — but they were genuinely functional currency, not philatelic merchandise.
The "W.B." monogram attribution to a W. Bauer is provisional; the initials appear in the design field but the printer remains unconfirmed.