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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Alfeld (Leine) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT ALFELD (LEINE) GUTSCHEIN ÜBER ZWANZIG MARK MARK 20 Alfeld (Leine), 1. Dezember 1918. Der Magistrat Das Bürgervorsteherkollegium Nr. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT ALFELD (LEINE) Nr. 20 ZWANZIG MARK 20 Dieser Gutschein muß binnen einem Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung, spätestens aber am 1. Februar 1919, zur Einlösung gebracht werden. Verlängerung der Einlösungsfrist bleibt vorbehalten. J.C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER |
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Alfeld an der Leine is a small industrial town in Lower Saxony, better known today as the site of Walter Gropius's 1911 Fagus shoe-last factory — a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its wartime notgeld is less distinguished. J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover were a reliable regional printer of commercial stationery and paper goods who handled a significant volume of municipal emergency currency across Lower Saxony during 1918, as the Reichsbank's coin supply collapsed under wartime metal requisitioning.
The 20 Mark denomination is on the higher end for municipal notgeld of this period, suggesting it was intended to cover wage payments rather than retail transactions.