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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Münster in Westfalen (City of Münster in Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in an expressionist woodcut style, signed and dated 1921 by the artist Jos. Dominicus, illustrates a violent scene from the Anabaptist uprising of February 1534, with two figures rendered in bold blue and red strokes on a light ground. Vertical decorative panels with stylised foliate motifs in red flank the composition on each side, each bearing the bold denomination numeral '2' and the inscription 'MARK' in black. Below the vignette, a Low German dialect legend, the redemption clause with date '1 August 1921', the issuing authority 'DER MAGISTRAT' with two manuscript facsimile signatures, and the printer's credit 'DRUCK: GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, HANNOVER' appear in sequence, while a further Low German inscription runs along the upper border. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE WIERDAIPERS, VON RAOSERIE VULL SCHREIT: FEBRUAR 1534 "WEHE! WEHE!" UN BUSSE! "ÄS DULL: EINLÖSUNGSTERMIN: 1 MONAT NACH ERFOLGTEM AUFRUF MÜNSTER, DEN 1. AUGUST 1921. DER MAGISTRAT: DRUCK: GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, HANNOVER 2 MARK |
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Münster's municipal notgeld program was more elaborate than most — the city commissioned Jos. Dominicus to produce designs of genuine artistic ambition at a moment when hundreds of German towns were churning out purely functional emergency scrip. Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover, primarily known as a printing ink manufacturer, handled the production.
The 1921 date places this firmly in the second wave of German inflation notgeld, issued after the 1920 series had worn out and before hyperinflation made small-denomination municipal paper effectively pointless by late 1923.