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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Trostberg (City of Trostberg) |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a coloured street scene of Trostberg's main thoroughfare viewed in perspective, with the town's distinctive church tower rising at the far end, framed by an elaborate baroque arch with scrollwork and foliate ornamentation in gold and red tones. To the left, a red-framed cartouche bears the denomination '1 MARK' in bold letterpress. To the right, a text panel states the note's validity conditions and carries a manuscript signature; below the arch runs the motto in Gothic script. |
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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. |
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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.