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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiedenbrück (City of Wiedenbrück) |
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| 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.