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2 Mark
| Emittent | Magistrat zu Brakel (Kreis Höxter) |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
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| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Material | Paper |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Single-colour blue letterpress note with an ornate scrollwork border at all four corners and along the edges. The left half carries two denomination cartouches reading '2 MARK' in large Gothic script, flanked by the town arms of Brakel within a circular legend, the validity and issue date, and two manuscript signatures below the text 'Der Magistrat'. To the right, a detailed line-art vignette shows a chained figure seated at the base of a column topped by a bird, set against a cobbled street scene in a distinctly medieval style. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Full-colour polychrome reverse divided into two registers: the left panel contains a Low German verse in red and black Gothic script on a cream ground, framed by a green foliate border with red corner ornaments, captioned 'Wahrhaftige Geschichte anno 1655' at the foot. The right panel presents a vivid folk-art vignette of a street scene with half-timbered houses, a figure leaning from a window, and a rotund councillor in period costume reacting with surprise on the cobbled lane below; the town arms appear in the lower right corner. |
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| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Anmerkungen |
Brakel is a small town in the Teutoburger Wald region, and its municipality issued this note during the Notgeld peak of 1921 — a period when hundreds of German local authorities printed emergency money to address a chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage. The Magistrat zu Brakel, subordinate to Kreis Höxter in Westphalia, had no independent monetary authority in any meaningful sense; these notes circulated purely on local trust and were theoretically redeemable at the town cashier's office.
Kreis Höxter Notgeld from this period was rarely submitted for centralized overprinting or validation, making individual municipal issues like this one difficult to cross-reference against surviving redemption records.