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1 Mark
| Issuer | Süsel, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Reverse description | Issued as a Doppelschein (double note), the reverse carries the corresponding half of the paired note format typical of certain German Notgeld issues, with text and design elements completing the two-part structure. |
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| Protection description | Doppelschein watermark, integral to the paper stock used for this double-note format issue |
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| Comments |
Süsel is a small rural commune in Holstein, and its 1920 notgeld issue is typical of the municipal emergency currency wave that swept Germany following the postwar coin shortage. H. G. Rahtgens was a Lübeck-based commercial printer responsible for a significant number of municipal notgeld issues across the region — their output was competent but rarely distinguished, and the watermarked paper used here was a common cost-effective security measure rather than an exceptional one.
The Pick reference GRM:1301.1B places this within the broader German notgeld cataloguing system. Süsel issued in small quantities for purely local use; surviving examples in any condition are scarcer than their unremarkable origins might suggest.