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1 Mark Buchdruckerei Rehmann
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei Heinrich Rehmann, Bockenem |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1923 |
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| Obverse lettering | Ambergau Notgeld No 093266 Das Gute – dieser Satz steht fest – Ist stets das Böse, was man läßt! Eins zwei drei! im Sauseschritt Läuft die Zeit, wir laufen mit. – Dieser Schein kann bis 31. 12. 1923 bei mir eingelöst werden. Heinr. Rehmann, Buchdruckerei, Bockenem. |
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| Reverse lettering | Eine Mark Wilhelm Busch |
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Bockenem is a small town in Lower Saxony, and Heinrich Rehmann was its printer — not a bank, not a municipal treasury. During the notgeld period, particularly 1914–1923, German towns and businesses of all sizes issued emergency small-denomination scrip when official coinage disappeared from circulation, hoarded by a public bracing for the worst. A printing house issuing its own 1 Mark note is among the more self-referential acts of that crisis: the same press that made the money was named on the money.
Self-printed notgeld from private commercial issuers carries a higher forgery risk by design — there was no separation between issuer and printer.