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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Luftkurorts Fürstenberg in Meckl. EINE MARK 1 Fürstenberg, den 1. August 1921 Dieser Gutschein wird an der städtischen Kasse eingelöst, er verliert 4 Wochen nach öffentl. Aufkündigung seine Gültigkeit Der Rat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a finely drawn landscape vignette in line-engraving style occupying most of the note's surface, illustrating bathers at the Schwedt lake shore with the Fürstenberg church steeple visible across the water in the background. At the upper centre a scroll cartouche bears the bold Fraktur inscription "Fürstenberg i. meckl." with a promotional tourism legend below it, while two black corner panels at upper left and right each display the green numeral "1 Mk" against a dark ground. The caption "Badeleben am Schwedtsee" is inscribed at the lower left within the decorative double-rule border. |
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Fürstenberg an der Havel — a small Mecklenburg town — issued notgeld like hundreds of German municipalities scrambling to fill the coin shortage that worsened through 1920 and into 1921. These local emergency issues were technically obligations of the issuing municipality, redeemable in theory but in practice often worthless once the inflationary spiral made redemption meaningless. Most towns printed far more than they needed for actual circulation, driven partly by the collector market that had sprung up around series notgeld by 1921.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented series, suggesting it was part of a coordinated multi-denomination release rather than a one-off stopgap.