Catalog
2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Leck (Municipality of Leck) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green, orange, and gold tones with an ornate border of stylised scrollwork and two running pigs rendered in orange at upper left and upper right. The central diamond-shaped vignette contains a colourful scene of the Lecker Markt (Leck market), showing a bustling fairground with livestock, figures, trees, and red-brick farm buildings in the background, inscribed 'Lecker Markt' in green above the scene. Denomination indicators '2 Mark' appear twice in the lower corners within the decorative surround. |
| Reverse lettering | Lecker Markt 2 Mark 2 Mark |
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Leck is a small market town in Schleswig, historically contested territory that passed between Denmark and Germany multiple times — it became definitively German only after the 1920 plebiscite. Notgeld from this municipality dates to the emergency currency period of the early 1920s, when hyperinflation rendered Reichsbank notes functionally useless for small transactions and thousands of German towns and communes issued their own scrip to fill the gap.
The DeNG reference places this within the fourth sub-variant of the series, suggesting Leck issued multiple designs or print runs — unusual for a municipality of its size, and worth noting for collectors assembling complete local sets.