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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenberg in Mecklenburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | A street-scene vignette in sepia tones occupies the central field, rendered in a woodcut-like artistic style and showing a perspective view of a Fürstenberg townscape with pedestrian figures; a notation in the upper left cartouche reads 'Hier lebte der Forscher Schliemann 1836–41', referencing the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann's residence in the town. A Low German verse beginning 'Dat Trojasche Land, un unse Sand…' fills the upper centre, while denomination panels showing '1 Mk' in gold on dark brown grounds appear in both the lower left and upper right corners. The light yellow-brown underprint covers the face of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hier lebte der Forscher Schliemann 1836-41 Dat Trojasche Land, un unse Sand de sünd önvereen... blot dor wier'n Schätze un hier sünd Steen 1 Mk |
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Fürstenberg an der Havel sits on the Mecklenburg-Brandenburg border, and the small-town municipal scrip issued here in 1921 belongs to the dense secondary wave of German Kleingeldersatz — the replacement coinage crisis driven not by wartime emergency but by postwar hoarding of metal and the Reichsbank's inability to keep low-denomination coin in circulation. Hundreds of German municipalities issued their own 1-Mark notes that year for identical reasons, making individual attribution to a specific issuer the only thing that distinguishes one from another in a collection.
The DeNG reference pinpoints this as variant 7 within the 402.2 sequence, suggesting the town issued multiple closely related versions — worth confirming against the full Grabowski catalogue entry before pricing.