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1.25 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Gransee |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels printed in black and orange. The left panel presents a vignette of a medieval stone tower and city gate street scene in Gransee, while the right panel shows a Gothic brick church facade with an arched gateway. The central panel carries the issuing authority text and denomination in Gothic blackletter script, with the value 'Eine Mark und fünfundzwanzig Pfennige' rendered in large orange lettering. Account designation 'Konto F' appears in a scroll cartouche at lower left, the serial number in a matching cartouche at lower right, and the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G.-GLOGAU' is typeset along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a dynamic full-width battle vignette in black and orange, illustrating a mounted medieval combat scene with armored knights, swords, shields, lances, and rearing horses, evoking the legendary defense of Gransee by the citizen Hans Lüdderst. A denomination shield '125 Pf' is positioned at the upper left within an ornamental border panel, and flanking decorative columns with floral and Gothic motifs frame the composition. Below the central vignette, a four-line verse in Gothic script references the episode, with the design registration number 'D.R.G.M. 795679' printed along the bottom margin. |
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Gransee is a small Brandenburg town north of Berlin, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, its savings bank was forced into the notgeld business by a nationwide shortage of small-denomination coins that had been melting away into hoarding and export since the war. The 1.25 Mark denomination is awkward by design — it was calculated to cover specific local transaction values, not to fit neatly into any national monetary scheme.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau was one of the more prolific regional printers of municipal emergency currency during this period, handling commissions from dozens of small issuers across Prussia and Silesia.