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1 Mark
| Issuer | Iserlohn, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this German Notgeld issue carries the denomination '1 Mark' in bold central lettering, framed by typographic border ornaments typical of municipal emergency currency of the early Weimar period. The issuing authority of the City of Iserlohn is cited in the upper inscription, with the year 1921 and serial designation appearing in the lower field. The overall layout reflects letterpress production consistent with the output of the Albert Jess printing house in Colmar. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the standard validation text and legal provisions associated with this municipal Notgeld issue, set within a simple typographic frame. Decorative border elements enclose the central text block, which references the conditions of redemption and the issuing city's obligation. The design is austere, consistent with utilitarian Notgeld production practices of the 1921 period. |
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Iserlohn was a Westphalian industrial town with no particular claim to monetary history, but like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Kleingeldscheine as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. The printer here, Albert Jess of Colmar, is the genuinely curious detail — Colmar had been returned to France under the Treaty of Versailles only two years earlier, after nearly five decades as part of the German Reich. A German city commissioning emergency currency from an Alsatian printer operating under French sovereignty, so soon after the border shift, speaks to how thoroughly pre-war commercial relationships outlasted the war itself.