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2 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Labes i. Pom. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and olive tones on a buff ground with a wavy guilloche underprint. At the top, a decorative ribbon cartouche carries the issuer's title in Gothic script. The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Labes — a crowned wolf passant on a shield, dated 1400, encircled by a wreath of wheat ears — flanked left and right by hexagonal frames each bearing the denomination '2 Mark'. A lower text panel in a ruled box gives the validity clause and the place and date of issue, countersigned by the Magistrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Labes i./Pom. 2 Mark Die Giltigkeit erlischt einen Monat nach Bekanntgabe in der Kreiszeitung des Kreises Regenwalde. Labes i./Pom. im Oktober 1921. Der Magistrat |
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Labes — now Łobez in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian market town, and its municipal authority issued this notgeld during the postwar inflationary spiral that made Reichsbank coin disappear from everyday commerce almost entirely. Local magistrates across Germany filled that void themselves, commissioning small-run emergency issues from whatever printer was at hand. Schimmelpfennig was the local option here, which is why the press and the issuer share the same town.
The 4/4 suffix in the Pick reference indicates this is the fourth variant of the fourth type in the Labes series — a level of granularity that matters to Pomeranian notgeld specialists more than to generalists.