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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiedenbrück (City of Wiedenbrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 125 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange and brown letterpress vignette centred on the circular municipal seal of Wiedenbrück, bearing a key, twin church towers and a cartwheel, flanked by two armoured medieval figures. The denomination numeral '2' appears in large orange Fraktur script at each corner, with the title 'Zwei Mark' across the top. Facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and Stadtverordnetenvorsteher appear in the lower lateral panels. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and blue woodcut-style illustration across the centre, showing a group of figures identified as 'Provêiser Peitmann un sinne Offiziersaspiranten' in a humorous local-dialect scene. A small vignette of a kneeling soldier labelled 'das Gewehr' occupies the lower-left panel, with a second vignette at lower right captioned 'über!'. A Low German dialect motto runs along the top in Gothic lettering. |
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Wiedenbrück's 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency money, printed after postwar hyperinflationary pressure had already exhausted the first round of wartime substitutes. Ad. Eßich & Co. in Oldenburg handled a substantial volume of municipal notgeld commissions during this period — a regional printer working far outside its home territory to meet demand from towns across the Reich that needed currency fast and cheaply.
Wiedenbrück itself was a small Westphalian market town with no mint tradition. That a place this size was issuing its own denominated paper at all is a direct measure of how completely the Reichsbank's distribution network had fractured by 1921.