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1 1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Gemeinde Trittau (Municipality of Trittau, Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein) |
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| Value | 1.50 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a large, gnarled oak tree rendered in bold woodcut-style letterpress print with yellow-green foliage. The denomination "Gültig für Ein 1½ Mark" is printed in Gothic script to the left of the tree trunk, with "Gemeinde Trittau" and the title "Gemeindevorsteher" accompanied by a manuscript signature to the right. A patriotic motto in Gothic script runs along the top border, and a validity notice appears along the bottom border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Schleswig Holstein stammverwandt, wanke nicht mein Vaterland Gültig für Ein 1½ Mark Gemeinde Trittau Gemeindevorsteher Dieser Schein ist nach Ablauf eines Monats ungültig |
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Trittau was a small market town in Holstein with a population well under a thousand when this note was issued during the First World War notgeld period. Municipal authorities across Germany were forced into emergency currency issuance after coin hoarding stripped small denominations from circulation entirely — Trittau's local government was no exception. The 1½ Mark denomination is itself a product of that crisis arithmetic: issuers combined values to cover the specific change gaps left by vanishing Pfennig coinage.