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3 Mark Marten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Marten (Municipality of Marten), Landkreis Dortmund |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 3 Marks |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-toned note with a vertical yellow underprint stripe at centre. The issuer heading in Gothic letterpress reads 'Landkreis Dortmund / Gemeinde Marten' at top, with 'KRIEGS-WECHSEL-SCHEIN' in bold capitals and the denomination 'Drei Mark' in large display type flanked by double rules. Date, place, and two manuscript signatures appear at foot, with an 'ungültig' cancellation handstamp in violet at left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream note set entirely in Gothic letterpress without vignette or guilloche. Redemption terms are set out in three paragraphs across the centre, flanked on both vertical margins by the validity date 'Gültig bis 1. Juli 1915' printed sideways. A circular violet official stamp of the Gemeinde Marten is impressed at centre, and the printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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Marten was a mining community on Dortmund's western fringe, and this note dates to the opening weeks of German emergency currency — the Notgeld wave triggered when wartime hoarding stripped small coins from circulation almost overnight in August 1914. Municipal authorities scrambled to fill the gap, and the Gemeinde Marten did so by commissioning a local printer from neighboring Lütgendortmund rather than a major commercial press.
The two signatories represent distinct administrative roles: von Stojentin as Amtmann held district-level executive authority, while Wienke as Gemeinde-Vorsteher was the elected head of the parish community itself — both signatures required to legitimize the instrument.