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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Düren (City of Düren) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued on cream paper with an orange guilloche border of repeating floral rosettes and an inner green geometric underprint. The denomination "Zwei Mark" is printed in large bold blackletter script at centre, above which appears the serial number line "Gutschein No [number] über"; to the lower left, the municipal coat of arms of Düren — a mural crown above a shield divided with an eagle and a lion passant — is printed in black. Explanatory text in German script at centre-right states the note's acceptance conditions, validity terms, and issuer liability, with the place and date "Düren, den 20. Nov. 1918" and the facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Düren 2 Mark 2 Mark Die Stadt Düren haftet für die Rückzahlung. |
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Düren's 1918 municipal notgeld sits in the dense middle ground of German emergency money — one of hundreds of Rhenish towns scrambling to fill the small-denomination vacuum left by hoarded imperial coinage. By 1918 the Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand, and cities like Düren issued their own paper under municipal authority, theoretically redeemable but practically circulating on goodwill alone.
The Merkelbacher reference numbers 22–23 suggest two signature or date variants within the same issue run, a common feature of municipal series where local treasury officials signed in batches.