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1 Mark
| Issuer | Philippsthal, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Mark Glück auf! Hierwohnt ein rei Geschlecht Standhaft und treu! Philippsthal an der Werra am 1. Oktober 1921 Der Gemeindevorstand |
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| Reverse lettering | Landgraf Philipp Burgvogt Schloßhofeinfahrt. 1685. Eine Mark Philippsthal a. d. Werra Eine Mark |
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Philippsthal is a small town on the Werra river in Hesse, best known for the Kali-Bergwerk — one of Germany's major potash mining operations. The 1921 notgeld issued by the municipality almost certainly circulated among mine workers and local traders during the coin shortage that followed postwar economic dislocation, before inflation made such fixed-denomination pieces obsolete within two years.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.1-3/8) indicate multiple design or text iterations within the same base issue — not uncommon for municipal notgeld, where local printers sometimes produced small runs with minor typographic differences that now represent distinct collecting targets.