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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wittenberg (City of Wittenberg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 143 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on smooth, firm white paper in dark brown and black, with the face divided by two black dotted border frames. An oval portrait vignette of Peter I of Russia appears at left, rendered in black letterpress. The denomination and city coat of arms are printed in light brown at right, with all textual legends in black. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large woodcut-style vignette in olive-brown, black, and orange-ochre tones illustrating the visit of Peter the Great to Luther's living quarters in 1712, with several period-costumed figures gathered around a table in an arched interior. At right, a dark olive panel bears a stylised numeral '1' within a decorative guilloche roundel above the Wittenberg city arms, flanked by a vertical ornamental border at the far right edge, with the denomination legend 'Eine Mark' in Gothic script at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Besuch Peters des Großen in Luthers Wohnstube 1712 1M Eine Mark |
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