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1 Mark Neustadt in Westpreußen
| Issuer | Der Magistrat Neustadt in Westpreußen |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink-tinted paper voucher with all text set in Gothic (Fraktur) typeface. The upper left bears a circular punch hole, and the lower left carries a round official ink stamp of the Neustadt, Westpreußen municipal magistrate, partially legible with a heraldic vignette at its centre. Two handwritten manuscript signatures appear in the lower right portion of the note beneath the issuing authority line. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über eine Mark. Neustadt Wpr., den 5. August 1914. Der Magistrat. (Translation: Voucher for one Mark. Neustadt Wpr., 5 August 1914. The Magistrate.) |
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Neustadt in Westpreußen — today Wejherowo in northern Poland — issued this note in the chaotic first weeks of August 1914, when the mobilization order effectively drained coined metal from circulation overnight. Municipal magistrates across the German Reich responded by printing emergency Notgeld on their own authority, without waiting for central sanction. This note is one of the earliest wave of such issues.
The paper itself was never meant to last. Redemption was assumed to be weeks away. It wasn't.