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2 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Beckum |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a haloed saint in red robes holding a martyr's palm frond, standing before the city arms of Beckum on a scroll banner inscribed 'Magistrat Beckum / Stadt Beckum'; a panoramic townscape with church spires and industrial buildings forms the background. Denomination panels '2 M' appear in red at upper left and upper right within ornamental cartouches, with a wreathed medallion bearing '2.00 M' at lower left. Issue date '1. Septbr. 1920' is printed at lower left, with manuscript signatures of the Magistrat officials at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | BECKUM Die künstliche Raths Sonnenuhr De Stadtroath leit'ne Sunnenuhr Wull upp den Markt posteeren; Domet see immer de Dagestiedt Könnden gud observeeren. Runks, de Bürgermestr reip: makt enn Dak dorup Süss schint de Sunn' de Uhr kaput! Könnt Se mi nich seggen wovull Uhr et is? Dieser Gutschein verliert 1 Monat nach erfolgter Bekanntgabe seine Gültigkeit 2 00 M. A. Dom 1920 |
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Beckum was a mid-sized Westphalian market town with no particular monetary significance — which makes the commissioning of a locally designed, locally printed notgeld piece like this one moderately unusual. Most municipalities of comparable size in 1920 relied on regional printers and stock designs. The "A. Dom" credit suggests a local commercial artist rather than a professional printing firm's engraver, and that origin shows in the work.
The 2 Mark denomination placed this note squarely in everyday transactional use during the post-WWI small-change shortage that drove hundreds of German municipalities to issue their own emergency currency.