Catalog
1.50 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Insterburg |
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| Printer | Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G., Glogau, Poland |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a view of the Lutheran town church of Insterburg (East Prussia), a plastered brick structure with a choir built between 1610 and 1612, which served as the principal Protestant place of worship in the city until 1945. The denomination and issuing authority are rendered in period letterpress typesetting above and below the vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a view of Insterburg Castle reflected in the upper castle pond, beside which a mill once operated. The inscription below the vignette reads "Altes Ordensschloß" (Old Teutonic Castle), with the denomination and validity conditions rendered in period letterpress typesetting. |
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Insterburg — today Chernyakhovsk in Kaliningrad Oblast — was a prosperous East Prussian commercial town, and its Stadtsparkasse was among the many municipal savings institutions that issued Notgeld during the inflationary disruptions of the early 1920s. The 1.50 Mark denomination is slightly unusual; most Notgeld issuers gravitated toward round figures, and fractional marks at this level suggest the issuer was trying to address a very specific gap in local small change.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau — Głogów in modern Poland — was a well-established Silesian printing house with a long record of producing municipal and commercial paper. Their work on Notgeld series from this period is generally consistent in registration and ink quality.