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1.75 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Gransee |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0465.1-5/5 |
| Obverse description | The central text panel, set on a light ground with a rust-red underprint, carries the payment promise in Gothic Fraktur script, with the issuer name 'Gransee' rendered in large decorative lettering. Two architectural vignettes in brown and terracotta flank the text: at left, the medieval Ruppiner Tor gate tower viewed through a narrow lane, and at right, the Gothic gabled façade of the Marienkirche. The account designation 'Konto L' appears at lower left, a serial number at lower right, and the printer's imprint 'Flemming-Wiskott-A.-G.-Glogau' below the frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | Droh'nder Strafe zu entspringen, sollt' dem Schläfer nicht gelingen; denn die Fraun mit grimmem Sinn schleppen ihn zum Galgen hin. D. R. G. M. 795879. |
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Gransee is a small Brandenburg town best known, if at all, as the burial site of Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. That its municipal savings bank issued notgeld in the fractional denomination of 1.75 Mark says something about how granular the small-change crisis of 1921 actually was — issuers were filling gaps that coins simply couldn't cover, down to the three-quarter mark.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled a substantial volume of municipal notgeld commissions during this period. The designer credit to W. H. Lippert is relatively uncommon for issues at this level.