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3 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Jever (City of Jever) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 3 Mark |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the heraldic coat of arms of Jever, comprising a fortified tower on a shield supported by two rampant golden lions, above a ribbon banner inscribed with the Latin motto 'DONAT URBI MARIA GUBERNACULA'. Flanking blue vertical panels carry the denomination numeral '3' and the monogram 'Mk' in large gothic lettering, with the issuer name 'Stadt Jever' printed in blackletter script at the upper corners. A lower text panel in gothic script bears the payment promise text referencing the Sparkasse der Stadt Jever in Oldenburg. |
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| Reverse lettering | Jeverländisches Herdbuch Vieh Mein Jeverland 3 Mark Gerhard Stalling Oldenburg |
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Jever's 1920 notgeld issues were produced during the height of Germany's small-change crisis, when municipal and commercial bodies across the country were legally empowered — if loosely — to print their own emergency currency. Gerhard Stalling was a well-established Oldenburg printer with a long history of book and periodical work; their notgeld commissions for regional Niedersachsen towns during 1919–1921 are identifiable by consistent typeface choices and a characteristic ink saturation that ages to a warm amber-brown on surviving examples.
Jever's series leaned into local identity more aggressively than most neighboring towns, which drove collector demand even at the time of issue — a known problem with late Weimar-era notgeld, where some municipalities printed far beyond circulation needs to profit from philatelic interest.