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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Paderborn (Notgeld), City of Paderborn |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Brown offset-printed note on cream paper, with the denomination ZWEI MARK in bold letterpress at the top centre. The central vignette presents a silhouette of a grazing donkey amid stylised foliage rendered in a flat graphic art style. Below the vignette, a text panel carries a four-line verse in Paderborn dialect flanked by the numeral '2' at left and the letter 'M' at right. Circumferential legend text runs along all four borders, with the issue date PADERBORN, DEN 10.NOV.1921 at the upper left and the facsimile magistrate signature at the upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ZWEI MARK | PADERBORN, DEN 10.NOV.1921. | DER MAGISTRAT: | DIE STADTSPARKASSE PADERBORN ZAHLE GEGEN DIESE PLATZANWEISUNG AUS UNSERM GUTHABEN AN ÜBERBRINGER | En Isel, dei Dukoten schitt, Diän hett wey Paderbüörnsken nit, Doch gift et Isels genaug in der Weit, Dei kaupet use Papeyergeld. | GÜLTIG BIS 1 MONAT NACH ÖFFENTL. AUFKÜNDIGUNG | OFFSETDRUCK GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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Paderborn's 1921 Notgeld issue came out of the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany after the war — small-denomination metal currency had essentially vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and municipal savings banks were among the thousands of local institutions deputized by necessity to fill the gap. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a large volume of Notgeld commissions during this period and brought consistent lithographic quality to what was, administratively, an emergency stopgap.
The Michels design credit is relatively rare for Parcus-printed municipal issues, where the printer's house style often went uncredited.