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1.50 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Schneidemühl |
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| Size | 90 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE STÄDTISCHE SPARKASSE SCHNEIDEMÜHL ZAHLE GEGEN DIESEN SCHECK AUS MEINEM GUT-HABEN AN DEN JNHABER EINE MARK UND FÜNFZIG PFENNIG. Konto B (Translation: The Municipal Savings Bank of Schneidemühl will pay to the bearer against this cheque from my account one mark and fifty pfennig.) |
| Reverse description | A large oval vignette at centre presents a woodland scene rendered in fine linear engraving, with a stone memorial marker rising from a rocky base amid tall trees; the surrounding dark foliage fills the upper corners outside the oval. Below the vignette, denomination numerals '1,50 M.' are set in blue rectangular cartouches at lower left and right, flanking a central text panel with the issuing authority inscription. The printer's registration mark 'D.R.G.M. 795679' appears in the lower margin. |
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Schneidemühl — now Piła in northwestern Poland — was a Prussian railway junction town whose municipal savings bank issued notgeld during the paper money chaos of the early Weimar period. The 1.50 Mark denomination is characteristically awkward, a value that only made practical sense when small change had entirely vanished from circulation and issuers were filling gaps with whatever arithmetic kept the local economy moving.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were a prolific regional printer of notgeld and commercial ephemera — their output for smaller Silesian and Pomeranian municipalities was enormous, and their notes are often better engraved than the issuing institution deserved.