Catalog
1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Kranenburg |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Parcus, Munich, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents the municipal notgeld issue of the town of Kranenburg, with the denomination '1 Mark' rendered in bold letterpress typography at the centre. The town name and issuing authority appear in period Gothic script, with decorative typographic borders framing the text block. The note reflects the austere design conventions typical of early Weimar-era emergency currency printed by Gebrüder Parcus of Munich. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the standard terms of validity and redemption obligations of the issuing municipality, presented in Gothic script within a plain typographic layout. Decorative borders consistent with those on the obverse frame the text, and the note's legal standing as local emergency currency is affirmed through the printed authority statements. |
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Kranenburg is a small border town in the Lower Rhine region, sitting just inside Germany near the Dutch frontier. Its Notgeld issues, including this 1 Mark, were produced during the post-WWI currency chaos when municipal authorities across Germany were authorized — or simply compelled by circumstance — to print their own emergency money to cover local wage payments and retail transactions that federal coinage could no longer sustain.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich printed enormous volumes of Notgeld for hundreds of small issuers during this period, which kept unit costs low but means their involvement alone says nothing about print quality or rarity. Scarcity here depends entirely on the original issue quantity, which Kranenburg's records do not reliably document.