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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Löbejün (City of Löbejün) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and black Notgeld note with a central guilloche-bordered vignette carrying the bold denomination 'Eine Mark' in large letterpress type. The heading reads 'Löbejüner Stadtgeld / Gutschein über' above the value, with the issuing town name and date 'Löbejün, 25. Februar 1921' below. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower centre, attributed to the Bürgermeister and a second municipal official, flanking an official town stamp. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of a full-length figure of a man dressed in everyday early 20th-century attire, hands on hips, presented in a lightly shaded line-engraved style against a simple street or village background. The city arms appear in the upper left corner, with denomination numerals '1 M' repeated at both lateral margins. Redemption and penalty clauses are printed in two text panels flanking the figure, with a serial number at the lower left. |
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Löbejün was a small town in the Prussian Province of Saxony — population a few thousand at most — and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1921 was entirely typical of the notgeld wave that swept German municipalities during the inflation crisis. What distinguishes the Parcus-printed issues from many provincial notgeld series is print quality: the Munich firm had genuine commercial printing credentials and the results show it, which is more than can be said for the hastily lithographed output of smaller regional printers working under the same pressures.
The DeNG reference numbers 812.1–3 indicate three known variants within this denomination, likely differentiated by date or signature.