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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Delbrück (City of Delbrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 82 × 63 mm |
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| Reverse description | Orange and black reverse printed in the same woodcut illustrative style. The upper portion bears the title legend within a cloud-form cartouche, below which a vignette shows a winged aviator figure in flight, arms outstretched, rendered in bold black line work. A lower vignette depicts a crowd of figures with raised arms, beneath which four stanzas of German verse are set in Gothic blackletter script. The denomination '5 Mark' appears at upper left and upper right. |
| Reverse lettering | Der Delbrücker flieger Anno 1914 5 Mark fieg, flieger flieg! Durch Kampf hindurch zum Sieg! Doch schwindeltronk u. flügellahm Er wieder auf die Erde kam Heut zieht er still beim Pflügen Wie andre Menschen fliegen |
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Delbrück is a small Westphalian town, and its 1921 notgeld issue reflects the hyperinflationary pressures that forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency when the Reichsbank could no longer supply adequate small-denomination notes. Louis Koch of Halberstadt printed for numerous such municipal clients during this period, essentially running a notgeld production line.
The designer credit to H. Niediek of Paderborn is unusual — local design commissions were common for decorative notgeld, but most towns in this region contracted both design and printing through a single firm.