Catalog
1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Trostberg (City of Trostberg) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 MARK Volk in Not - Zusammenhalt Gebot. DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GILTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTL. BEKANNTGABE DER STADTRAT: RECHTSK. BÜRGERM. |
| Reverse description | The reverse centres on the municipal coat of arms of Trostberg — a white twin-towered castle with red roofs on a blue field, surmounted by a mural crown — encircled by a large wreath of oak leaves and acorns rendered in green and gold. The denomination numeral '1' appears in red-framed corner cartouches at all four corners, and two hexagonal cartouches to either side of the arms carry aphoristic inscriptions in Gothic lettering. The issuer's name 'Stadt Trostberg' runs across the lower margin in bold Gothic type, with the artist's monogram 'GSt' visible at lower right. |
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Trostberg is a small market town on the Alz river in Upper Bavaria, and its decision to issue notgeld was typical of the municipal emergency currency wave that swept Germany and Austria between 1914 and 1923 as coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight. Local authorities, businesses, and even individual shops filled the void with their own printed scrip, giving the Reichsbank a persistent administrative headache it never fully resolved.
Stadt Trostberg issues are not heavily documented in the major notgeld references, which makes precise dating within the series difficult. Catalog thin; treat any date or series information on the note itself as the primary source.