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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Genthin (City of Genthin) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange and dark navy blue on white paper, dominated by a bold woodcut-style portrait vignette of an elderly man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, rendered in stark white-on-dark-blue hatching with an expressionist quality and signed 'Alfred Hanf-Erfurt' at the lower margin. A legend in orange Gothic script is divided across two horizontal bands: the upper band reads 'Wie Gott will: es ist' and the lower band reads ':ja alles doch nur: :eine Zeitfrage.:'. The overall design is framed with a plain orange border. |
| Reverse lettering | Wie Gott will: es ist :ja alles doch nur: :eine Zeitfrage.: Alfred Hanf-Erfurt. |
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| Comments |
Genthin is a small town in the Magdeburger Börde, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities, it turned to local commercial printers during the Kleingeldnot of 1921 — the small-change shortage that followed postwar monetary disruption. Alfred Hanf of Erfurt served here as both designer and printer, with finishing handled by Offsetdruck Arthur Kirchner, also in Erfurt. Two firms for a single provincial 2 Mark note suggests the work was split between design origination and press production, a common enough arrangement among Erfurt's printing trade at the time.