1.50 Mark Stadtsparkasse

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.