2 Mark

Oelde is a small Westphalian town — in 1920, its population was under 10,000 — and its decision to issue notgeld in multiple signature varieties reflects the administrative chaos that accompanied Germany's postwar currency fragmentation. Municipal and commercial entities across the Reich were printing their own emergency money because the central supply of small-denomination Reichsmarks simply could not keep pace with demand, partly a consequence of wartime hoarding and partly of runaway inflation beginning to take hold.

The reference suffix 1-3/3 indicates three distinct signature combinations documented for this type, a detail that matters for completeness-oriented collectors of Westphalian municipal notgeld.