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1 Mark Ortskohlenstelle
| Issuer | Ortskohlenstelle Braunschweig (City of Brunswick) |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld voucher printed in dark brown and orange, with a decorative dotted border running along both vertical edges. The denomination numeral "1" appears as a large orange underprint at centre, overlaid by the ornate Gothic-script title "Gutschein" at top and the value inscription "Eine Mark" in bold Fraktur lettering. A red circular official stamp of the Ortskohlenstelle Braunschweig, bearing a lion vignette, is applied at lower right, with the issuing authority text and redemption instruction printed below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in orange on a cream ground and occupied by the heraldic shield of Brunswick — a rampant lion passant to the right set within a U-shaped escutcheon — rendered against a fine guilloche lattice underprint of repeating diamond and circle motifs. Alternating panels of circular and diamond guilloche patterns flank the shield on both sides, enclosed within a plain rectangular border. |
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Ortskohlenstelle notes occupy a strange corner of German emergency money history. These were not issued by a municipality in the conventional Notgeld sense, but by a local coal distribution office — a wartime and postwar administrative body responsible for rationing fuel. The Braunschweig coal office issued scrip to facilitate transactions within its own supply chain, a purely functional instrument with no pretense of broader monetary ambition.
The 1 Mark denomination suggests early postwar issuance, before hyperinflation rendered small-value paper meaningless. Few of these coal office issues were preserved by collectors, since they lacked the decorative printing that made Notgeld fashionable.