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2 Mark
| Issuer | Wangeroog, Municipality of |
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| Value | 2 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two panels. The left panel presents a stone-carved coat of arms from the Westturm (West Tower), dated 1597, set within an ornate architectural frame with a Latin inscription reading 'LAUS DEO OPTIMAE AO STANDE ABONA CAUSA TRIUMPHAT'. The right panel carries the text 'Nordseebad Wangeroog' and denomination '2 Mark' in Gothic script at upper centre, above a coastal vignette of the island village with a church steeple, rendered in a warm red-pink duotone, with seagulls in flight and a descriptive caption noting the village's destruction in 1855 by storm surge. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 Mark 2 Mark Nordseebad Wangeroog |
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Wangeroog is the smallest and most isolated of the inhabited East Frisian Islands, and its wartime emergency money reflects that remoteness. Like most German municipal Notgeld of the 1914–1918 period, this 2 Mark note was issued to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation — silver and copper hoarded by a public that trusted metal over paper when everything else was uncertain.
Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg was a logical choice for small North Sea island municipalities; the firm handled a significant volume of regional Notgeld contracts across Lower Saxony and was equipped for short, rapid print runs on modest formats.