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2 Mark
| Issuer | Viehhandlung Johs. Vogt, Süderbrarup |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a busy livestock market scene rendered in letterpress with ochre and black tones, set within a decorative border with ornamental corner scrollwork. To the left, a two-storey building labelled 'KONTOR / Viehhandlung / Johs. Vogt' anchors the composition, while herders drive cattle and swine across an open yard toward railway freight wagons in the background. The denomination '2 M' appears in bold type at the upper left, with the motto 'STADT UND LAND HAND IN HAND' inscribed along the top edge, and an oval cartouche at lower right bearing the issuer's name 'VIEHHANDLUNG / Johs. Vogt / SÜDERBRARUP'. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT AM 28. SEPT. 1921 SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT. 31. DEZ. 1920. Nr. |
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Süderbrarup is a small market town in Schleswig, and in 1920 it sat in contested territory — the Schleswig Plebiscites of February and March that year were determining whether the region would remain German or transfer to Denmark. Notgeld issued by local businesses in this period was partly practical (small coin shortages were severe) and partly an assertion of local commercial life continuing regardless of the political outcome. Zone II, where Süderbrarup fell, voted to remain German in March 1920.
Viehhandlung Johs. Vogt — a livestock trading firm — issuing its own emergency currency is a reminder of how granular the Notgeld phenomenon became. No bank, no municipality: a cattle dealer backing paper with his own credit.