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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Grabow i. Meckl. (City of Grabow an der Elde) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Bicolour Notgeld note printed in orange and blue, with a Gothic-script header 'Notgeld der Stadt Grabow i. Meckl.' running across the top margin. A central ornate cartouche frames the city arms — a crescent moon with three stars on a dark oval field — flanked by horizontal scroll-shaped banderoles each bearing the denomination '1 Mark' in Gothic lettering. Below the vignette, two lines of Low German verse appear in the lower field, followed by a validity statement and manuscript signatures of municipal authorities at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kiek! Jug den hitten Mann mal an, De Golddukaten mälen kan, Ach hadd wi doch so einen hier, So wär wi Geld blot ut Papier Hier is uns Rathus up tau sehn - Klauk snacken deiht hier männig rin. Een Mark |
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Grabow an der Elde was a small market town of a few thousand residents when it issued this note during the German notgeld inflation wave of 1921. The authority to issue emergency municipal currency had been effectively delegated downward to almost any administrative body willing to take it on — which is why hundreds of German towns this size produced their own paper at this period, Grabow among them.
Faber of Magdeburg was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which is entirely typical for small-denomination notgeld of this tier.