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5 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Wiedenbrück (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Ad. Eßich & Co., Oldenburg i. O., Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünf Mark / Gutschein für den Geldverkehr in der Stadt Wiedenbrück / 1.1. 1921 / Gültig bis auf öffentliche Bekanntmachung / Widerruf durch Bekanntmachung / Der Magistrat / Die Stadtverordneten |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a night watchman asleep in bed with a quilted coverlet in orange, flanked by two smaller scenes: a nocturnal street scene at left and a fire scene at right. Text in Low German dialect above and below in Gothic script. |
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Wiedenbrück is a small Westphalian town — today absorbed into Rheda-Wiedenbrück — with no particular monetary history of its own, which makes its 1921 Notgeld issues a minor bureaucratic curiosity rather than a significant regional event. The Magistrat's decision to issue at the 5 Mark level placed it at the upper end of municipal emergency currency, a denomination that most smaller communities avoided.
Ad. Eßich & Co. in Oldenburg handled a considerable volume of Notgeld printing during 1920–1922, supplying dozens of small Westphalian and Lower Saxon authorities who lacked access to larger commercial printers.