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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinfeld (Schleswig) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ground note with a decorative bamboo-style border frame enclosing the central vignette of a spread-winged eagle perched on a sword and draped black-white-red German tricolour within an octagonal cartouche. The denomination numeral '1' appears in large red figures with scroll ornament to either side of the vignette, each accompanied by the word 'MARK' below. A lower orange panel carries the serial number at left and the validity inscription with the manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorstand at right. A patriotic motto runs vertically along both lateral borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | STEINFELD WIR WOLLEN KEINE DÄNEN SEIN WIR WOLLEN DEUTSCHE BLEIBEN 1 MARK GÜLTIG BIS 30. NOVEMBER 1921 DER GEMEINDEVORSTAND: Nr. |
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Steinfeld is a small parish in the Schleswig region, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the dense second wave of German municipal emergency money that flooded circulation after the Reichsbank's coin shortage made small change effectively unobtainable. Thousands of German communes issued their own paper during this period, and Schleswig-area municipalities did so with particular urgency — the region had only just been partitioned between Germany and Denmark following the 1920 plebiscite, leaving local economies in administrative flux.
Steinfeld retained the German side of that partition. The 1 Mark denomination places this note in the transitional moment before hyperinflation rendered mark-denominated notgeld obsolete almost overnight.