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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Horn in Lippe (Stadtkasse) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gießt ihm noch eins auf seinen Schädel! So gut. — Jetzt fort im Mondenschein! Ade, ihr braven horn'schen Mädel. Auf Wiedersehn am Externstein! EINE MARK DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 31. DEZEMBER 1921 DIESER SCHEIN WIRD EINGELÖST VON DER STADTKASSE IN HORN I.L. HORN IN LIPPE 1. NOVEMB. 1921 DER MAGISTRAT: DER STADTV.-VORST.: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is occupied entirely by a large, colourful scenic vignette rendered in a chromolithographic style, showing the Externsteine rock formation near Horn in Lippe viewed from the land side. Towering sandstone pillars rise against a blue-grey sky amid dark trees, with a horse-drawn yellow stage-coach proceeding along the road in the foreground and groups of period-costumed figures on the left path. The denomination numeral "1" appears in orange circular cartouches at each lower corner, and a captioned banner at the foot of the design identifies the scene. |
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Horn is a small town in the Lippe region of what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its Stadtkasse issued emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage during the post-WWI monetary chaos. The 1 Mark note was printed by Gustav Heynke at Kanne & Kühne in nearby Detmold, the regional printing center that supplied Notgeld to numerous Lippe communities during this period.
Horn's issues are among the less-documented of the Lippe municipal series, with survival rates difficult to establish given the informal redemption patterns typical of small-town Notgeld in 1921–22.