Catalog
3 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Dorsten (City of Dorsten) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Grey-toned note with a black rectangular border enclosing a central colour vignette of a stylised warrior figure in blue and ochre, striding forward while carrying the Dorsten civic shield. Bold decorative numeral '3' denominators in blue appear at left and right, each captioned 'MARK'. A designer's monogram 'JH' is visible in the upper right corner. A two-line Low German dialect motto is inscribed below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 3 MARK Wei us wat will, de lotet men trekken, de Dorschenfleigen dauht ümmer noch stekken |
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Dorsten, a small Westphalian town on the Lippe river, issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany after World War I. Municipal and commercial issuers across the country flooded circulation with low-denomination emergency paper when official coinage effectively vanished — hoarded, melted, or simply not produced in sufficient quantities by a mint system overwhelmed by wartime demands.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented series of six varieties, suggesting Dorsten issued across multiple dates or printings rather than a single run. Worth examining the serial numbering or date field carefully to confirm which of the six this example represents.