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25 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund (for the Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple and grey on cream paper, the obverse carries a large Gothic script denomination legend 'Fünfundzwanzig Mark' across the top, beneath which a central diamond-shaped vignette portrays Saint Reinold (Reinold der Kirchenbauer) alongside a group of medieval stonemasons at work, with two large circular numeral '25' medallions flanking the vignette left and right. Below the central design, a cursive text block names the paying municipal and district cashiers of Dortmund and Hörde, followed by the issue date 'Dortmund am 10. Oktober 1922' in a ruled panel, and the issuing authority line 'Für die Stadt- und Landkreise Dortmund und Hörde: Der Magistrat der Stadt Dortmund' above two manuscript signatures and the circular embossed seal of the City of Dortmund. Marginal legal text runs along all four borders citing the imperial law authorising the issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 MARK Und unsre Frauen, unsre Mädchen, mit Augen blau wie Himmelsgrund, sie spinnen nicht die Liebes- ...tochern nur für die mutige Grund; Ein frommer Engel hält die Wacht- ihr Seele Tag und Nacht und baut bis zum Tod sein Liebesglück in Glückseligkeit, dessen Alm umspannt ein Mädchen aus West... West-Werbe-Dienst-Dortmund. |
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Dortmund's Magistrat issued this note under the authority covering both the city and the surrounding Landkreis Hörde — an administrative pairing that reflected the heavy industrial integration of the Ruhr at the time, before Hörde was formally incorporated into Dortmund in 1928. The printer, West-Werbe-Dienst, was an advertising and commercial print house rather than a specialist currency printer, which was entirely typical of the Notgeld boom of 1922 when municipal treasuries turned to whoever had a press.
Inflation was accelerating fast enough by mid-1922 that 25 Mark denominations, once significant, were becoming transactional small change within weeks of issue.