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5 Mark

Issuer Stadt Wiedenbrück (City of Wiedenbrück)
Year 1921
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Value 5 Mark
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Obverse lettering Fünf Mark
Gültig bis auf öffentliche Bekanntmachung
Der Magistrat
Bürgermeister
Widerruf durch Bekanntmachung
Die Stadtverordneten
Stadtverordnetenvorsteher
Gutschein für den Geldverkehr
1.7. in der 1921.
STADT WIEDENBRÜCK
CONSENSUS CIVIUM
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Reverse lettering WAT ALLES IN OUSE CHROUNIK STÄIT
Gut de goude olle Teit
fünf Mark
NAUSTESTER
de St. Sebastians-Schützengilde um 1700
De Schühenbrödüers van düll Nest,
Sind daomols wackre lüe gewêst,
"Dreiling" was Trump, dagout, dagin,
De "Brüchte" wullt versopen sin.
Ad. Eßich & Co., Oldenburg i. O.
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Wiedenbrück is a small Westphalian town — population well under ten thousand even today — and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1921 places this note squarely within Germany's postwar Notgeld wave, when municipal and commercial bodies printed their own fractional and low-denomination paper to compensate for chronic coin shortages and an overwhelmed central banking system. Ad. Eßich & Co. in Oldenburg handled a substantial volume of these municipal commissions across northern and western Germany during this period, functioning essentially as a jobbing printer for dozens of small issuers simultaneously.

The DeNG reference indicates a single known type for this issuer at this denomination, which suggests Wiedenbrück's program was limited in scope rather than part of a sustained series.

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