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2 Mark
| Issuer | Municipality of Graasten (Gravenstein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | A. Ritscher, Graasten, Germany |
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| Obverse description | At left, an ornate Art Nouveau vignette encloses an octagonal portrait medallion of the Danish historian A.D. Jørgensen, rendered in fine letterpress with a decorative surround of scrollwork, paired caryatid figures, and a floral urn with birds above. To the right, the denomination '2 Mark' is set in bold Gothic script against a pale blue-green panel, below which the note text, a manuscript facsimile signature on behalf of the town, the issuance place and date, and a printed serial number appear on an unprinted white ground. |
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| Obverse lettering | A.D. Jørgensen 2 Mark Denne Pengeseddel taber sin Guldighed 1 Maaned efter Bekendtgørelse i "Heimdal" Paa Byens Vegne: Graasten, Februar 1920 No. 01671 A. Ritscher. Graasten. |
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Graasten sits in the Schleswig region, which transferred from German to Danish sovereignty following the 1920 plebiscite — this note was almost certainly printed and issued in the immediate window surrounding that transition, when local municipalities were scrambling to manage practical currency shortages left by the administrative upheaval. It is municipal notgeld in the strictest sense: a local stopgap, not a bank instrument.
A. Ritscher printed locally, which was common for small Schleswig notgeld issues. The engraver credit to J. Lyck is the more unusual detail — named engravers appear rarely on municipal emergency notes of this type and denomination.