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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiedenbrück (City of Wiedenbrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in orange and grey-brown on a pale green underprint. The central vignette shows the municipal seal of Wiedenbrück — a circular roundel bearing a gothic twin-towered church facade, a large key, and a spoked wheel, encircled by the Latin legend 'SIGILLVM CIVIVM WIEDENBRVCK' — flanked on either side by armoured medieval warrior figures rendered in a woodcut style. Large blackletter numerals '1' appear at the left and right margins, with the denomination 'Eine Mark' in bold orange blackletter script across the top. Below the vignette, the text 'Gutschein für den Geldverkehr' and 'Stadt Wiedenbrück' appear in large display type, with the date '1.1. in der 1921' and two manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and Stadtverordnetenvorsteher with their respective official captions. |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Mark 1 Gültig bis auf öffentliche Bekanntmachung Der Magistrat Bürgermeister Widerruf durch Bekanntmachung Die Stadtverordneten Stadtverordnetenvorsteher Gutschein für den Geldverkehr 1.1. in der 1921. STADT WIEDENBRÜCK SIGILLVM CIVIVM WIEDENBRVCK |
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Wiedenbrück's 1921 notgeld emerged from the same inflationary pressures that forced hundreds of small German municipalities to issue their own emergency currency when the Reichsbank could no longer meet demand for low-denomination notes. Wiedenbrück itself was a small Westphalian town — old Catholic market settlement, under 5,000 residents — with neither the financial weight nor the administrative apparatus to sustain a lengthy parallel currency, so this issue was short-lived by design.
Ad. Eßich & Co. in Oldenburg handled a considerable volume of municipal notgeld contracts during this period, supplying notes to towns across northern and western Germany. The designer credit to Nausester is specific enough to be worth noting — individual designer attribution on Kleingeldscheine at this scale is less common than it might appear.