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1 Mark Rees
| Issuer | Stadt Rees (Bürgermeisterei Rees) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Franz Knippenberg, Rees a. Rh. |
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| Obverse description | The centre of the note is dominated by a large Gothic initial 'C' in ochre and black, superimposed over a panoramic vignette of Rees am Rhein showing the riverside townscape with a church tower and rooftops. Denomination numeral '1' appears in each of the four corners within red rectangular panels. At the top, the word 'Mark' is set in Gothic blackletter script, accompanied by a validity clause in German Kurrent script; at the lower centre, the place name 'Rees', the date '1.3.1921', a manuscript signature above the title 'Der Bürgermeister', and a printed serial number are arranged. |
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| Reverse lettering | 'En Rotthüs steht hier groot en dèstig, Jn mönnege Stroot et Ölder drömt. FRANZ KNIPPENBERG - REES a. RH. |
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Rees is a small Rhine town in the lower Rhine district of Westphalia, and this 1921 Notgeld piece is exactly what you'd expect from a Bürgermeisterei-level issuer during the height of the German small-change crisis: locally printed, locally circulated, and almost certainly redeemed within months. Franz Knippenberg was a Rees printer — no Frankfurt or Berlin intermediary here — which kept production costs minimal but also limited print quality and paper durability.
The Bürgermeisterei designation places this below city-level administration, a township authority issuing emergency currency largely because coins had simply vanished from daily commerce. Surviving examples frequently show heavy fold wear along a central horizontal crease, consistent with notes folded into purses rather than handled flat.