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1 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schobüll (Municipality of Schobüll, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in blue and red-brown on plain paper stock. A stylised Art Nouveau border of interlaced foliage and cartouches bearing the denomination numeral '1M' occupies all four corners. Central text in red-brown capitals reads 'NOTGELD der Gemeinde Schobüll', below which a validity notice is set in roman type. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1M |
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Schobüll is a coastal village near Husum in what was then the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein — a municipality so small it barely warranted its own notgeld. This 1 Mark piece belongs to the wave of locally issued emergency currency that flooded Germany between roughly 1916 and 1922, when the imperial and later Weimar central authorities could not supply adequate small-denomination coinage to meet everyday demand. Thousands of German municipalities, no matter how minor, printed their own.
What distinguishes Schobüll's issues from the more elaborate collector-targeted notgeld of the early 1920s is their functional intent — these were made to spend, not save.