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1.50 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bolkenhain |
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| Printer | Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G., Glogau, Poland |
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| Obverse lettering | die Stadtsparkasse BOLKENHAIN IN SCHLESIEN zahle gegen diesen Scheck Eine Mark und Fünfzig Pfennig aus meinem Guthaben Bolkenhain i/Schl. den Verein für heimatpflege FLEMMING – WISKOTT – A.-G. GLOGAU |
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| Reverse lettering | Schön bist Du in Frühlingstagen alte Burgruine droben In dem ersten Glanz der Sonne von dem frischen Grün umwoben BURG SCHWEINHAUS IN SCHLESIEN BRUNO HANDKE D. R. G. M. 795679 |
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Bolkenhain was a small Silesian textile town — today Bolków, in southwestern Poland — and its Stadtsparkasse issued this 1.50 Mark note during the Notgeld period when Germany's central monetary system was effectively unable to supply adequate small change. The 1.50 Mark denomination is itself a curiosity: most Notgeld issuers stuck to round figures, and the half-mark increment suggests a very specific local need, probably tied to wage rounding in the town's mills.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were a well-established regional printing house with a long record of producing Silesian municipal paper. Bruno Handke's design credit is unusually specific for a note of this type and scale.