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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiedenbrück (City of Wiedenbrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress and lithographic notgeld in orange, grey-green, and brown on white paper. The central vignette shows the circular town seal of Wiedenbrück bearing a stylised church facade with twin towers, a large key, and a wagon wheel, flanked by two armoured medieval sentinel figures set against a foliate background. The denomination "Eine Mark" is set in large Gothic blackletter across the top, with the numeral "1" repeated at each corner, and the issuer name "Stadt Wiedenbrück" rendered in bold letterpress along the lower margin above the date "1.7. in der 1921." |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Mark 1 Gutschein für den Geldverkehr Stadt Wiedenbrück 1.7. in der 1921. Gültig bis auf öffentliche Bekanntmachung Der Magistrat Bürgermeister Widerruf durch Bekanntmachung Die Stadtverordneten Stadtverordnetenvorsteher N- |
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Wiedenbrück is a small Westphalian town — today part of Rheda-Wiedenbrück — that issued this note during Germany's acute small-change shortage of the early 1920s, when municipal authorities across the country were legally permitted to print their own Notgeld to compensate for the disappearance of coin from circulation. The printer, Ad. Eßich & Co. of Oldenburg, handled a considerable volume of such municipal commissions from northwest German towns during this period.
The reference number DeNG 1/2#1423.1 CK places this within the standard Grabowski-Mehl Deutsches Notgeld cataloguing scheme, the suffix indicating a specific color or paper variant within the Wiedenbrück 1-Mark type.