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3 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Delbrück (City of Delbrück, Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Louis Koch, Halberstadt, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Red and black letterpress Notgeld note with a decorative border of interlocking zigzag and floral motifs. The upper portion bears the blackletter inscription 'Gutschein der Stadt Delbrück i. Westf.' flanked by the numeral '3' at left and the abbreviation 'Mk' at right. A central text cartouche in ornate frame carries the validity notice and date, flanked by two woodcut-style figures in period peasant dress carrying a horizontal pole hung with foliage, evoking a harvest scene; two facsimile signatures and an official seal appear below the cartouche. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Delbrück i. Westf. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit nach erfolgter öffentl. Bekanntmachung Delbrück, d. 27.1.1921 |
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Delbrück was a small Westphalian market town with no municipal banking infrastructure of its own, which made the issuance of notgeld like this a purely pragmatic response to the coin shortages that crippled small-denomination commerce in Germany through 1920–1921. Louis Koch of Halberstadt handled printing for dozens of these municipal emergency issues across the region — a commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is exactly what local authorities could afford and access quickly.
The designer credit to H. Niediek of Paderborn is the detail worth noting: local artistic commissions for notgeld were common, and Paderborn was the nearest significant cultural and ecclesiastical center to Delbrück, making the connection geographically logical rather than incidental.