Catalog
1 Mark
| Issuer | Municipality of Altheide (Lower Silesia) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on buff paper with a scalloped border frame running the full perimeter. A central oval cartouche with a lined guilloche underprint carries the large numeral '1' above the word 'Mark' in Gothic script. The heading 'Notgeld von Altheide' arcs across the top in bold Fraktur lettering, while 'Gültig bis zum Abruf' (valid until recalled) is set in two lines flanking the cartouche. At the lower portion, the legend 'Der Gemeinde-Vorstand' appears above two manuscript signatures of the municipal board members. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld von Altheide Gültig bis zum Abruf 1 Mark Der Gemeinde-Vorstand |
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Altheide — now Polanica-Zdrój — was a spa town in the Glatz valley, and like hundreds of small German municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency money during the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward. L. Schirmer operated out of Glatz, the regional center, and supplied Notgeld to several local issuers in the area, which accounts for the family resemblance across issues from this district.
The DeNG reference numbers suggest at least four distinct variants in this denomination alone — differences likely in date, color batch, or overprint rather than fundamental design changes.