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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Radolfzell (City of Radolfzell) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | K. Fuchs |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in a vibrant Art Nouveau palette of black, green, yellow, and terracotta, with vertical side panels of stylised snowdrop flowers in potted stems forming a decorative border. The central vignette presents a panoramic lakeside view of Radolfzell at the beginning of the 19th century, with a boatman on the shore, tall trees to the right, and the town's church towers reflected in calm water under a radiant sunrise. A white circular cartouche at upper centre carries the numeral 1 and MARK, while the lower margin bears a poetic quotation attributed to Victor v. Scheffel in Gothic script. |
| Reverse lettering | RADOLFZELL 1 MARK zu Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. O Radolfzell du altes Nest, mit deinen Wackenmauern! Victor v. Scheffel. |
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Radolfzell's 1921 notgeld issue came out of the same municipal emergency that flooded southern Germany with small-denomination scrip during the postwar coin shortage. What distinguishes this particular piece is the printer-designer pairing: Stähle & Friedel was a Stuttgart commercial press with genuine artistic ambitions, and K. Fuchs produced designs for several Baden notgeld series that circulated simultaneously — meaning the aesthetic sensibility here was a regional product, not a one-off commission.
Radolfzell itself sits on the Bodensee, and its issues were among the smaller Baden municipal runs of the period, which suppresses surviving quantities.