1 Mark

Groß Nordende is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 places this note in the second wave of German emergency money — the so-called "Serienscheine" period, when municipalities increasingly issued collector-targeted sets rather than purely functional currency. By 1921, the notgeld phenomenon had become as much a philatelic enterprise as a monetary one, with many issues printed in deliberate series to exploit collector demand.

The DeNG reference suffix "a-b" indicates two distinct varieties exist within this type — likely a color or paper variant rather than a date change, though the distinction matters for completeness.