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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Alfeld (Leine) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | J. C. König & Ebhardt, Hannover, Germany (1845-1999) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT ALFELD (LEINE) GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZWEI MARK 2 MARK Alfeld (Leine), 1. Dezember 1918. Der Magistrat Das Bürgervorsteherkollegium Nr. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in rose-red on a plain paper stock and enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with small ornamental corner pieces. The issuer's name 'STADT ALFELD (LEINE)' appears in bold at the top, with a central rose-red guilloche vignette carrying the denomination numeral '2' at each side and the legend 'ZWEI MARK' across the centre. Below, a block of German text sets out the redemption conditions, and the printer's imprint 'J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER' is printed in small letterpress along the bottom margin. |
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Alfeld an der Leine is a small industrial town in Lower Saxony, best known today for the Fagus shoe-last factory — a UNESCO World Heritage site designed by Walter Gropius and completed in 1913. This 2 Mark Notgeld was issued five years later, when the wartime metal shortage forced hundreds of German municipalities to plug the gap left by hoarded coins. J. C. König & Ebhardt, the Hannover printer responsible here, produced emergency municipal paper for numerous towns across the region during this period.
The Leine designation in the issuer name distinguishes the town from other Alfelds — a necessary clarification even on locally circulating scrip.