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3 Mark
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Tilsit |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Orange-ground notgeld with black and grey letterpress printing, the face divided into five framed panels. The upper register carries two vignettes flanking a large central panel: at left, the M. von Schenkendorf monument with the caption 'M.v SCHENKENDORF GEB. IN TILSIT 1783'; at centre, a view of the Deutsche Kirche (erected 1610) with its twin-towered steeple framed by foliage, with a vertical serial number at left margin; at right, the Queen Louise memorial with the caption 'KÖNIGIN LUISE DENKMAL IN JAKOBSRUHE'. The lower register is divided into three panels bearing, respectively, the numeral '3', the authorisation text with two manuscript signatures of the Magistrat and the date 'TILSIT, 12. NOV. 1921', and the cursive denomination initial 'M'. |
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| Obverse lettering | M.v SCHENKENDORF GEB. IN TILSIT 1783 DEUTSCHE KIRCHE ERB. 1610 KÖNIGIN LUISE DENKMAL IN JAKOBSRUHE DIE STÄDT. SPARKASSE ZAHLE AUS UNSERM GUTHABEN 3 MARK AN ÜBERBRINGER DIESER PLATZANWEISUNG / TILSIT, 12. NOV. 1921 MAGISTRAT: 3 M |
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Tilsit — today Sovetsk, in the Kaliningrad enclave — issued this municipal emergency note during the prolonged Weimar-era small-change crisis that followed hyperinflation's early stages. German municipalities, unable to obtain sufficient Reichsbank currency, printed their own Notgeld in enormous quantities from 1918 onward; by 1921 the practice had become semi-normalized, with local magistrates acting as de facto issuers of circulating paper.
Tilsit sits on the Memel River, just across from what became Lithuanian territory after 1919. That geographic pressure — a border town suddenly cut from its eastern hinterland — made functional local currency more urgent here than in most comparable German towns.