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2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tonndorf-Lohe |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is composed in a triptych layout: at left, a coloured vignette of a farm labourer seen from behind carrying a piglet under each arm, set within an arched foliage border; at right, a matching arch encloses a figure in rural dress carrying a basket with a hen, standing beside a milestone inscribed "Tonndorf-Lohe 1 Klm."; the central panel displays a wartime ration card (Reichsfleisch-Karte) on a display board above an ornamental oval medallion with the numeral "2" over the letter "M". A captioned banner at the top reads "O scheune Tied!" in Low German. The designer's signature "d. Nägele" appears at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | "O scheune Tied!" Reichsfleisch-Karte Tonndorf Lohe 1 Klm. 2 M d. Nägele |
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Tonndorf-Lohe was a small municipality east of Hamburg that, like hundreds of German communities in 1921, issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address the chronic coin shortage that persisted well after the First World War. Municipal authorities across the Reich were essentially printing their own currency by necessity, with no standardized oversight and wildly varying quality. The designer credit to d. Nägele is notable; Nägele-associated work appears on several south German Notgeld issues, suggesting either a commercial design house supplying multiple municipalities or a traveling commission arrangement common to the period.
Tonndorf-Lohe was later incorporated into Hamburg in 1927, which makes this note one of the few material traces of the municipality's brief independent administrative existence.