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1 Mark
| Issuer | City of Langenschwalbach (Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Bad Langenschwalbach i. Taunus Nr. [Serialnumber] Gutschein über eine Mark Dieser Gutschein wird nur bis zum 31. März 1922 mit 1M. an der Stadtkasse in Langenschwalbach eingelöst. Langenschwalbach, den 1. Dezember 1920 Der Magistrat: [Signature] (Translation: Bad Langenschwalbach in the Taunus Number [Serialnumber] Voucher of one Mark This voucher will be exchanged for 1 Mark only until the 31st of March 1922 with the town treasury in Langenschwalbach. Langenschwalbach, the 1st of December 1920 The magistrate: [Signature]) |
| Reverse description | At left, a mud-covered woman emerges from a peat bog bath; at right, a mother figure surrounded by four children. Central denomination numeral. At bottom, a stork carrying a baby in its beak, with a heart motif at lower left. The imagery humorously promotes the spa town's therapeutic and fertility-associated treatments. |
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Langenschwalbach — now Bad Schwalbach — was a spa town of modest size, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1920 reflects the broader municipal scramble for small change that followed Germany's post-war coin shortage. By this point the Reich had been flooded with emergency issues from thousands of towns, and the collector market was already distorting production: many municipalities printed well beyond circulation needs, knowing philatelists would absorb the surplus.
Whether this issue falls into that category or represented genuine local need is difficult to establish from the reference alone. The DeNG 2#0771.2 designation places it within the documented Hesse-Nassau sequence, but production figures for Langenschwalbach specifically are not reliably recorded.