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1 Mark
| Issuer | Solnhofen, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan and black Notgeld note printed in lithography, with the denomination numeral '1' at upper left and right corners. A central vignette presents a full-length statue of Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography, set within a radiant sunburst medallion framed by an ornamental laurel wreath. A ribbon banner above the statue bears the inscription 'Aloys Senefelder, Erfinder d. Lithographie'; to the lower centre, the place name 'Solnhofen' is rendered in bold Fraktur script alongside a printed serial number. Redemption text appears in a cartouche at left, issue date and municipal authority signatures at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Aloys Senefelder Erfinder d. Lithographie 1 Mark Dieser Schein wird jederzeit an der Gemeindekasse Solnhofen eingelöst Solnhofen, den 1. Juli 21 Der Gemeinderath Solnhofen |
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Solnhofen is a small Bavarian municipality best known to the scientific world as the source of the lithographic limestone in which Archaeopteryx was first discovered in 1861 — the same fine-grained Jurassic stone that made the region a center of commercial lithography for decades. Whether the local quarrying industry had any hand in commissioning Koch's press in Halberstadt is unclear, but the connection between the town's geological fame and its printing heritage is worth noting.
Louis Koch of Halberstadt produced notgeld for numerous small German municipalities during the 1921 inflation period. This is a routine municipal emergency issue, with nothing anomalous known about the printing run.