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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Elmshorn (City of Elmshorn) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld note in orange and black with a panoramic industrial harbour vignette of Elmshorn across the centre. The denomination '1 MK' appears in all four corners within ornate gothic frames, with the city name 'ELMSHORN' in bold blackletter across the top. A three-line verse in script occupies the lower centre, above a dated issuing panel reading 'Elmshorn, November 1921 / Der Magistrat' with two facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 M Dat beste Geld, dat jümmer gellt, veel mehr as Gold in alle Welt Is Arbeikslust un Redlichkeit un Dohn sin Plicht as Schülligkeit, Un Og un Hart blitzblankt! — Dar kümmt't overall mit tark! |
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Elmshorn, a modest textile and trading town on the Krückau River west of Hamburg, was among hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency currency printing as the Reichsmark's purchasing power collapsed in the early Weimar period. H. W. Köbner & Co. in nearby Altona was a practical choice — regional printers handled the bulk of Schleswig-Holstein's Notgeld output, and transport costs mattered when margins were thin and time shorter still.
The dual facsimile signatures of the Magistrat were a common administrative shorthand, though they gave these notes at least a formal veneer of civic authority. Legally, they were obligations of the city itself — redeemable in theory, ignored in practice once inflation rendered fixed denominations worthless within months.