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2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ennigerloh (Municipality of Ennigerloh) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large industrial factory vignette at centre-right, rendered in a hand-drawn graphic style with tall chimneys emitting stylised rays suggestive of an orange sunburst radiating from behind. To the upper left, a traditional half-timbered farmhouse is depicted, with the municipal coat of arms above centre and the serial number to its right. The denomination '2 MARK' and date '1.6.1921' appear at lower left, with German script text running along all four margins as a border legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 MARK 1.6.1921 |
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Ennigerloh is a small Westphalian town whose economy in 1921 was dominated by cement production — the local Dyckerhoff works being among the most significant industrial employers in the region. This note is Notgeld, issued by the municipality during the postwar small-change crisis when federal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted long before hyperinflation proper set in.
W. Girardet in Essen was a prolific Notgeld printer, handling municipal commissions from across the Ruhr and Westphalia. The 2 Mark denomination places this at the upper end of the typical municipal Notgeld range for 1921, just before Reich emergency decree reined in local issuance.