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20 Mark Kreis Segeberg
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Segeberg (District Committee of Segeberg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper with a light floral guilloche underprint across the entire field. The title legend in Gothic (Fraktur) script runs across the top, followed by the denomination in large Fraktur text at centre. Rectangular panels on each lateral margin carry the numeral '20' above the word 'Mark', with a series letter 'A' at the head of each panel. The serial number is overprinted in red within a ruled box at centre, below which the issue date, validity clause, issuing authority, and a manuscript signature of the Landrat appear in Fraktur lettering; the printer's imprint is set in small Roman type along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZWANZIG MARK |
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Kreisausschuss Segeberg issued this note in 1918 under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German district authorities to print Notgeld when Reichsbank notes became scarce during the final year of the war. Segeberg, a small administrative district in Schleswig-Holstein, was among hundreds of rural Kreise that turned to local printers — in this case C. H. Wäsers Druckerei, operating within the district itself — rather than contracting with larger printing houses in Hamburg or Berlin.
Local production kept costs down but also kept quality variable. Wäser's output for Segeberg is generally considered modest in execution relative to the more elaborately designed Notgeld that flooded the market in 1921–22.