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1 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Neidenburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a pale yellow-green ground within a single-line border. The place name "Neidenburg-Ostpreußen" is set in large Gothic blackletter script across the top, with the date "1921" flanking the word "Notgeld" on the line below. The central vignette displays the large denomination numeral "1.M" in bold red letterpress, framed by a symmetrical Art Nouveau panel of interlacing geometric strap-work, with stylised mythological beast heads — each clutching a sheaf of grain — projecting from the left and right. Below the vignette, three columns of text record the conditions of redemption, the issuing authority ("Der Magistrat"), two manuscript facsimile signatures, and the printer's imprint "Druck: Hartung, Hambg.", while the bottom-right credits the designer: "Entw. Architekt Hans Philipp". |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same pale yellow-green stock within a matching single-line border. "Eine Mark" is inscribed in bold Gothic blackletter across the top, beneath which a fine horizontal guilloche band runs the full width of the note. The central vignette presents a colour letterpress view of the newly built Konsumverein (cooperative store) of Neidenburg — a two-storey Neo-Baroque building with a red hip roof, arched entrance portal, and rows of trees in the foreground — captioned below "Neubau Konsumverein" at left and "Entw. u. Bauleit. Hans Philipp" at right. Numeral "1." appears at lower left and lower right, and the bottom legend reads "Marktbild·im·Zeichen·des·Wiederaufbaues·1916-21". |
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Neidenburg — now Nidzica in northeastern Poland — was a small East Prussian town that, like dozens of similar municipalities, turned to locally issued Notgeld when postwar inflation made Reichsbank notes functionally scarce. The Magistrat series of 1921 sits in the middle phase of the Notgeld phenomenon, after the emergency of 1914–19 but before hyperinflation made such small denominations completely worthless by late 1923.
Hans Philipp's involvement places this above the purely utilitarian end of the Notgeld spectrum. Hartung of Hamburg handled a considerable volume of municipal emergency currency from northern German issuers during this period, and the print quality reflects a house accustomed to volume work rather than prestige commissions.