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2 Mark
| Issuer | Strausberg, City of (Der Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Diagonal crosshatch underprint in red and blue covers the entire field. To the left, the municipal arms of Strausberg — a blue shield bearing a white ostrich with a red crest and a horseshoe in its beak, standing on a grassy mound — is rendered in letterpress within a decorative cartouche. To the right, the denomination '2 Mark' and the issuing authority title 'Stadtkassenschein Strausberg' appear in ornate Fraktur script, accompanied by the date '1. September 1921', the legend 'Der Magistrat', a list of magistrates' names, and a serial number panel at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wallenstein auf dem 2 M. Marienberge bei Strausberg. 1628. |
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Strausberg is a small Brandenburg town east of Berlin, and this 2 Mark Notgeld piece belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany in 1921 as inflation began dismantling the purchasing power of Reichsmark coinage. Local magistrates across the country were effectively forced into the currency business, however briefly, to keep small commerce functioning.
The DeNG reference suffix 1-6/6 indicates this is the sixth and final type within the 1281 series — worth noting for collectors working toward a complete Strausberg run.