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1 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Winterberg |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a panoramic winter landscape of Winterberg rendered in a bold lithographic style in blue, ochre, and dark green, with snow-covered fir forests and fields in the foreground leading toward the town's church steeple and rooftops set against a backdrop of rolling, snow-capped Sauerland hills. The place name "WINTERBERG i.W." is lettered in white block capitals across the upper portion against the blue sky, with the numeral "1" at upper left. The designer's signature "Thormaun Delf." appears at lower left, and a handwritten serial number is placed at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 WINTERBERG i.W. Thormaun Delf. |
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| Comments |
Winterberg's municipal Magistrat issued this 1 Mark note as Notgeld — emergency local currency — almost certainly during the acute coin shortage of 1917–1918 that forced hundreds of German towns to print their own small-denomination paper. The designer credit "Thormaun" appears to be a local attribution, possibly a civic official or minor commercial artist rather than a professional printer's engraver.
Municipal issues from small Sauerland towns like Winterberg were typically printed in very limited runs and redeemed quickly, which makes survivors genuinely uncommon rather than artificially scarce.