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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtrat Gera-Reuss (City Council of Gera, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GERA-REUSS WIRD VON ALLEN STÄDT-KASSEN IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN DER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 1. APRIL 1922. GERA AM 1.5.1921 No 4491 DER STADTRAT: |
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| Protection type | Embossed stamp |
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Gera's city council issued this 1 Mark note as Notgeld during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1921, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany flooded local circulation with emergency paper to cover the shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank currency. The embossed stamp — rather than a printed security device — reflects the stripped-down production realities of that moment.
The printing date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly an acquisition or administrative record date, not a production date. Gera fell to American forces in late April 1945; no municipal printing authority was issuing 1921-dated Notgeld on the day Hitler died.