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3 Mark Julius von Bastineller
| Issuer | Neuhaus in Westfalen, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 3 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress on white satin-smooth wove paper. The face carries dense typeset text in black forming the main body of the humorous personal Notgeld declaration by Julius von Bastineller, arranged across the full field with ornamental borders. A descriptive vignette of Paderborn viewed from the north appears as an underprint element, with a white spot within a dark field identified in the text as a Schutzmarke (trademark) for wheat flour. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress in green, dark orange, and black on white paper. A central vignette depicts a theatre scene with figures in period rural costume. Surrounding text in black and white carries humorous verse and satirical instructions regarding the note's issuance and intended misuse. |
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Neuhaus an der Lippe — a small town in the Paderborn district — issued notgeld through individual signatories rather than through a municipal treasury stamp alone. Julius von Bastineller's name appearing on this 3 Mark piece identifies him as the responsible official or guarantor, a practice that pushed personal accountability into what was otherwise a chaotic parallel currency system. During 1921, the German inflation spiral had not yet reached its terminal phase, but municipal issuers were already scrambling to cover shortfalls in Reichsbank coin and small-denomination notes.
The DeNG reference places this within a numbered series for Neuhaus, suggesting at least two other denominations or design variants were issued concurrently.