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1 Mark
| Issuer | Scheeßel, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of the Scheeßel village panorama with a prominent church steeple and half-timbered houses set among trees, printed in blue and green on a light ground. The denomination '1 Mk.' appears in bold Gothic type in the upper left and right corners, flanked by Art Nouveau scroll ornaments in green. A lower text panel carries the redemption notice, the issue date, a space for the Gemeindevorsteher's countersignature, and the printer's imprint at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Scheeßel. 1 Mk. Dieser Schein wird durch die Sparkasse Scheeßel eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit mit dem 31. März 1922 Scheeßel, 1. Okt. 1921. Gemeindevorsteher DEUTSCHLÄNDER & Co. NACHF., HAMBURG. II |
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Scheeßel is a small town in Lower Saxony, and its 1921 emergency money — Notgeld — reflects the broader German municipal scramble to fill the void left by a chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage. The Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand, and thousands of towns printed their own stopgap currency through local and regional commercial printers. Deutschländer & Co. Nachf. in Hamburg handled runs for numerous northern German municipalities during this period, which makes attribution straightforward but distinguishing individual printings less so.
Scheeßel's issue is among the more modest in scope from the region — a single 1 Mark denomination suggests limited ambition or limited need.