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2 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat zu Brakel, Kreis Höxter |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Brakel Kreis Höxter Notgeld 2 Mark Gültig bis zum 1. März 1922 Brakel den 1. Juni 1921 Der Magistrat |
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| Reverse lettering | Ne beste Kamer harr' wi nit, Dorüm dat Jüngsten ut dat Finster schitt. Jedoch-o weh-en Unglück gafst dorbi: En Ratsmann gung akkrat vorbi, De hütt dat Traktamente krumm genuomen: Un is sin an den Kaak genuomen. Wahrhaftige Geschichte anno 1655 |
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Brakel is a small market town in the Teutoburger Wald, and its 1921 Notgeld issue reflects the acute small-change famine that plagued German provincial commerce in the early Weimar years. The Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate coinage in denominations useful for daily trade pushed hundreds of municipal authorities — including minor Kreisstadt administrations like the Magistrat here — to issue their own emergency paper.
The Kreis Höxter series is not among the more widely collected Westphalian Notgeld groups, which keeps prices modest even for cleaner examples.