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1 Mark
| Issuer | Burg an der Wupper, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Smooth, firm white paper with text and print executed in brown letterpress. The face bears the municipal name and official seal inscription of Burg an der Wupper, with the denomination numeral and issuing authority details arranged in a typographic layout. |
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| Obverse lettering | Burg a.d.Wüpper BURG B.M.SIEGEL ET FREIHEIT Burg a.d.Wüpper 1.XII.1921 Der Bürgermeister 1 M |
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Burg an der Wupper was a small industrial town in the Bergisches Land, historically tied to the metalworking trades along the Wupper river. Like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to address a chronic shortage of small denomination coinage that persisted well after the armistice. These municipal issues were a local solution to a national supply failure, authorized under the broad tolerance shown by the Reichsbank toward improvised circulating media during this period.
The town merged into Solingen in 1929, which gives this note a terminal date — nothing further was ever issued under this authority.