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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Haselünne (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Franz Lammersdorf, Haselünne |
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| Obverse description | Printed on a rose-brown ground within a serrated rectangular border, the obverse carries two circular seal vignettes side by side at centre: the left reads 'SIGILL·CIVITATIS·HASELUNNENSIS' in mirror-reversed Gothic lettering around a crosshatched municipal coat of arms, and the right bears the Latin legend 'SIGILLUM CIVITATIS HASELUNENSIS' around a matching arms device. Between them at top is a decorative Art Nouveau foliate ornament, with denomination numeral '1' in dotted cartouches at each upper corner. Below in cursive script: 'Haselünne, den 1. Oktbr. 1921 / Der Magistrat' with a manuscript signature, and a validity notice to the right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt, die drei Brennereien hat HASELUNNE Bärchen's Dom alten Faß bestes haß Edles u. Uralter von Koshen Den müßt Ihr kosten. Doppelkorn von Heydt; Wer den trinkt ist gescheit |
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Haselünne is a small market town in Lower Saxony, and this note is a product of Germany's Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1921 — the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency currency. The Magistrat issued these notes on local authority, backed by nothing more than civic trust and the expectation of eventual redemption.
Franz Lammersdorf was a local printer, not a security specialist. That matters: these notes had no serious anti-counterfeiting measures, and the quality of impression varies noticeably across surviving examples.