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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Holzminden |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in teal and black on plain paper with an ornate scrollwork border filling the upper field. The central denomination numeral '1' and the word 'MARK' appear within an oval guilloche vignette, flanked on the left by the town arms of Holzminden showing a fortified gate with a lion, and on the right by a heraldic shield bearing a rearing unicorn. A ruled text panel at the lower half carries the validity inscription in italic script, below which appears the issuing authority designation and a manuscript signature, with the printer's imprint running along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD d. STADT HOLZMINDEN 1 MARK Dieser Schein wird von der Stadtkasse in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit am 1. Mai 1922 Der Rat d. Stadt: DRUCK: GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, HANNOVER. |
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Holzminden's municipal treasury — the Stadtkasse — issued this 1 Mark note as emergency money (Notgeld) during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early First World War years. Gebrüder Jänecke was a Hannover-based printing and lithography firm with deep roots in commercial printing, a natural choice for municipal authorities who needed reliable short-run work without engaging the large state security printers.
The DeNG reference places this within the dense cataloguing of German local issues, where Holzminden appears among dozens of Lower Saxony towns that resorted to paper fractions when Reichsbank coin simply stopped reaching smaller communities.