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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Medebach |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Mark Nº 025857 1 Dieser Gutschein wird von der Stadtkasse Medebach in Zahlung genommen Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Ankündigung im Briloner Kreisblatt Kennyt it nit? Kennt yit nit? Kennyt dat alte Haus von Medebach nit? Dathius is tworens längest verfallen, De Name ofer is bliwen uns allen. Medebach, d. 2. September Der Stadtvorstand: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and sage-green tones, with a decorative serrated-edge border. A green ribbon banner across the top bears the inscription 'Notgeld - der - Stadt - Medebach' in Gothic script, with the subtitle 'Schnadezug 1641' below it. The central vignette presents a vigorous battle scene, rendered in pen-and-ink style, illustrating a historical skirmish on the Butterfeld, with figures in period costume engaged in combat against a townscape background. Denomination cartouches bearing '1 Mark' in bold Gothic type appear at left and right in green-framed panels. The lower margin contains three columns of Low German verse text, with small figural vignettes at lower left and lower right, and the printer's imprint 'F.W. BECKER ARNSBERG' at the bottom left. |
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Medebach is a small market town in the Sauerland region of Westphalia, and its Stadtkasse — the municipal treasury — was among the hundreds of small German civic bodies that issued emergency paper money during the acute coin shortage of the early Weimar period. These Kleingeldersatz notes were a practical stopgap, not a monetary policy instrument. F. W. Becker in nearby Arnsberg was a regional commercial printer who produced notgeld for multiple Sauerland municipalities, which accounts for the broadly similar typographic character seen across issues from this district.
The DeNG reference places this within a well-documented local series, though surviving examples attributable to individual dates within the 1921 run are not always easily distinguished.