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| Issuer | Stadt Uetersen (City of Uetersen, Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Red and green notgeld on cream paper with a scalloped guilloche border; left vignette shows the Uetersen coat of arms within a laurel wreath. Denomination "Tausend Mark" in Gothic script with four manuscript signatures and serial number below, dated 14 November 1922. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Uetersen i. H. dessen Gültigkeitszeit durch das "Uetersener Tageblatt" bekannt gegeben wird. Genehmigt vom Reichsfinanzministerium Berlin am 21. 10. 22. V. C. 3007. II. Ang. 1000 * 1000 Tausend Mark Für die Stadt Uetersen: Uetersen, den 14. November 1922. No 1786 |
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Uetersen is a small town on the Pinnau river in Schleswig-Holstein, and this 1922 emergency issue belongs to the vast wave of German municipal Notgeld that flooded the country as Reichsbank notes failed to keep pace with accelerating inflation. By mid-1922, the Reichsmark was losing value fast enough that towns, companies, and even individual businesses were authorized — or simply took it upon themselves — to print supplementary currency. Four countersignatures on a municipal note of this denomination is unusual and likely reflects a local requirement for multiple civic officers to authenticate each issuance, reducing the risk of unauthorized overprinting.