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1 Mark
| Issuer | City of Iserlohn |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Municipal notgeld issue of 1 Mark, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed in period typeface. The composition is typical of German emergency currency of the early Weimar inflation era, with text-based layout and ornamental border elements framing the central field. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse of the 1 Mark Iserlohn notgeld, carrying supplementary text and validity or redemption conditions consistent with municipal emergency currency practice of 1921, enclosed within a decorative border. |
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Iserlohn's 1921 Notgeld issues came out of the same municipal desperation that drove hundreds of German cities to print their own emergency currency as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small denominations in circulation. The city's metal industries — Iserlohn had been a center of wire-drawing and pin manufacture since the eighteenth century — were still running, but coin was simply unavailable for everyday transactions.
The DeNG reference indicating variants .1 through .3 suggests at least three distinct printings or signature combinations, worth distinguishing carefully at acquisition.