Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Eschershausen (City of Eschershausen) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Three vignettes across the upper half: Wilhelm Raabe's birthplace (left), a panoramic townscape of Eschershausen in Braunschweig (centre), and the Raabeturm monument (right). The lower half carries the redemption text with two circular value cartouches marked '2 Mk' on an ornamental scroll underprint. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Full-face vignette of labouring and industrial workers in an amber and grey colour scheme, with two smaller lower vignettes of agricultural and mechanical scenes flanking a central shield with three orange squares. A literary quotation by Wilhelm Raabe is printed below the shield. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Eschershausen is a small town in Lower Saxony, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 reflects the acute small-change shortage that plagued German municipalities in the early Weimar period — federal coinage simply wasn't reaching local economies fast enough to function. Stadt-issued notgeld at this denomination was commonplace across hundreds of German towns during 1920–1922, most authorized by local councils and signed by a single municipal official, here recorded only as Elsner.
The DeNG reference places this within a set of six variants for the 0351 issuer group, suggesting Eschershausen released multiple designs simultaneously — a common approach to discourage hoarding and encourage turnover.