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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wesselburen (City of Wesselburen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Wesselburen in Dithmarschen 1 MARK Wo Friedrich Hebbel wuchs und ward, Da herrscht noch heut Dithmarsche Art. |
| Reverse description | No second image provided; reverse description cannot be determined from available sources. |
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Wesselburen is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it resorted to printing its own emergency paper — Notgeld — as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation during the postwar inflation spiral. These town-issued notes were technically obligations of the municipal authority, not the central banking system, meaning redemption depended entirely on local fiscal health. Many were never redeemed at all.
Schleswig-Holstein had only recently been partitioned following the 1920 plebiscite, and municipal finances across the region were in flux. Wesselburen's note entered circulation in that uncertain administrative moment.