1 Mark

Glogau's municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — was a product of the acute coin shortage that gripped German towns in the immediate postwar period. The city issued multiple series between 1917 and the early 1920s, with Carl Flemming & Wiskott handling production locally, an uncommon circumstance since most smaller municipalities farmed their Notgeld out to Leipzig or Berlin printers.

Heinrich Schiestl, a Munich-based illustrator and woodcut artist, contributed designs to dozens of Notgeld series across Germany — his involvement here is a mark of the collector-oriented premium issues that proliferated from 1920 onward, when towns increasingly treated Notgeld as a revenue stream through philatelic sales.

The watermarked paper distinguishes this from the cheaper printings in the series.