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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wittenberg (City of Wittenberg) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT WITTENBERG H Gültig bis 5.März 1922 Der Magistrat: 2M |
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| Protection description | Ukraine Wappen (Keller#226) |
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Wittenberg issued this 2 Mark note during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1921–1922, when acute shortages of fractional coinage pushed hundreds of German municipalities into producing their own emergency paper. The Stadt Wittenberg series belongs to a particularly dense period of notgeld production — by mid-1922, the Reichsbank had largely stopped objecting, and local issues proliferated faster than any central registry could track.
The split designer credits — BHD on the obverse, Christophe on the reverse — suggest the layouts were commissioned separately, possibly from different local or regional workshops. The watermarked paper indicates the city was still sourcing security stock rather than using plain commercial paper, which some municipalities had already defaulted to by this point.