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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Warburg (City of Warburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 104 x 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue paper note with letterpress text in German blackletter script. The central inscription reads 'Gutschein der Stadt Warburg i. Westf.' with redemption terms referencing the Warburger Kreisblatt. Dated 'Warburg, den 19. Septbr. 1921' with the magistrate's manuscript signatures below. |
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| Reverse description | Blue paper reverse with a dark intaglio-style vignette framed by an arched border, portraying a night watchman in silhouette carrying a lantern and halberd against a townscape backdrop. The denomination '1 Mark' appears in the upper corners and in a lower panel flanking 'Stadt Warburg'. A verse titled 'Warburger Nachtwächterlied aus alter Zeit' is printed in the upper right. |
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Warburg's 1921 notgeld issues belong to the second wave of German municipal emergency money — produced not during the acute wartime shortage but during the prolonged post-war coin drought that left small-denomination metal currency virtually absent from everyday commerce. The city of Warburg, a small Westphalian town with a population well under ten thousand, handled its own printing locally, which was common for this period but produced results that vary considerably in paper quality and impression consistency across surviving examples.
Local printing means short runs, limited distribution radius, and rapid attrition through use — factors that combine to make even circulated Warburg pieces harder to source than notgeld from larger municipal issuers.