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20 Mark
| Issuer | Frankenberg an der Eder, District of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 20 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue of the District of Frankenberg an der Eder, printed by Gebrüder Parcus of Munich, with the denomination '20 Mark' and issuing authority inscribed in gothic letterpress typography. The design follows the utilitarian aesthetic typical of German emergency currency of the 1918 period, with textual elements arranged within a bordered frame. Validity conditions and redemption terms are stated in the body of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries printed text in German, likely detailing the legal basis and conditions of issue consistent with Notgeld regulations of 1918, within a plain bordered layout. Typography is set in gothic script, characteristic of the Gebrüder Parcus print house output of this era. |
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Frankenberg an der Eder was a small Hessian district authority, not a banking institution, and its issuance of this note in 1918 reflects the acute small-change crisis that forced hundreds of German municipal and district bodies to print their own emergency currency — Notgeld — as the war economy stripped coins from circulation entirely. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled an enormous volume of this municipal work during the period, producing notes for clients across Germany who had no printing infrastructure of their own.
The Müller reference places this within the catalogued Hessian Notgeld series, though survivorship varies considerably across the district issues printed by Parcus that year.