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2 Marki Wejherowo - overprint
| Issuer | District of Wejherowo |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 2 Marks |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, left plain. The wavy-pattern watermark is visible through the paper stock when held to light. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Wejherowo's 2 Marki note is a wartime necessity issue — a locally administered overprint applied to existing paper stock when the disruption of 1914 made normal currency supply impossible. German district authorities across occupied and frontier regions improvised precisely this way in the opening months of the war, each producing instruments that were technically valid within a tightly bounded geography and functionally worthless outside it.
The watermark is inherited from the base paper rather than designed for the note, which is typical of overprint emergency issues where the issuing body had no access to purpose-made security stock.