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2 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Markirch (Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | A municipal order-of-payment note with a detachable counterfoil stub at right, separated by a vertical line of perforation. The main body is printed in grey-green with a rectangular guilloche border framing the text, at the upper centre of which appears the city arms of Markirch. The denomination MK 2.- and serial number appear on the stub portion, which is printed in red. |
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| Protection description | Watermarked paper used as a security measure against counterfeiting. |
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Markirch is the German name for Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, a textile town in the Vosges whose administrative identity shifted between France and Germany depending on which war had most recently ended. This note was issued under German municipal authority during the period of Alsatian annexation — the town would revert to France after 1918, at which point German-denominated Notgeld became immediately worthless locally.
The watermark is atypical for municipal emergency issues of this type, most of which used plain stock sourced from whatever the local printer had available.