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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Strasburg in der Uckermark (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels beneath a decorative border, with the central panel bearing the municipal coat of arms of Strasburg — a crenellated tower gateway in red and grey with an eagle displayed in gules — above the large Gothic-script denomination "Eine Mark". The left panel carries a letterpress vignette of the Volksschule (public school) and the right panel a corresponding vignette of the Evangelische Kirche (Protestant church), both rendered in fine line illustration. The lower margin carries the validity clause in Gothic script, with ornate numeral "1" cartouches flanked by wheat-ear ornaments at each lower corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Strasburg Uckermark Eine Mark Gültig bis auf Widerruf Der Magistrat: Merke. Volksschule Ev. Kirche |
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Strasburg in der Uckermark — now Stargard in northeastern Brandenburg, renamed in 1939 to avoid confusion with the far more prominent Alsatian city — issued this note during the acute small-change crisis that followed Germany's defeat. Municipal and local authorities across the country were forced to produce their own Kleingeldersatz when coin circulation collapsed, and the Magistrat here commissioned J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu, a Bavarian printing house that handled a disproportionate share of small-town notgeld contracts in 1919.
Schwarz's press was roughly 800 kilometers from the issuing town — an unremarkable arrangement for the period, when local print capacity was frequently overwhelmed.