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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Weida (City of Weida, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Polychrome letterpress vignette occupying the upper three-quarters of the note, presenting a panoramic townscape of Weida with red-roofed half-timbered houses in the foreground, a Gothic church tower to the left, and the medieval Osterburg castle complex rising on the hill above the town against a blue sky. The lower band carries a dark green cartouche with the denomination numeral '1' in black at each corner flank, framing the issuer inscription in bold Gothic script. The printer's credit appears in small script beneath the vignette at the bottom margin, and the place and date 'Weida 1921' are inscribed in the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ronshau Weida 1921 Notgeld der Stadt Weida M 1 Druck: Johannes Arndt, Jena |
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Weida is a small town in eastern Thuringia, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address the chronic small-denomination coin shortage that plagued post-WWI Germany. The inflationary spiral had not yet reached its catastrophic peak, but coinage hoarding was already severe enough that local authorities were legally permitted to fill the gap themselves.
Johannes Arndt in Jena was a regional workhorse for Thuringian Notgeld production, turning out municipal issues for numerous small towns in the area during this period.