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1 Mark
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Belgard |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Sparkasse der Stadt BELGARD zahle gegen diesen Schein aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Belgard Eine Mark 1 M Konto M FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.G. GLOGAU |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width polychrome vignette by artist W. H. Lippert, rendered in an expressionist woodcut style, showing three mounted Totenkopf lancers of the Belgard Leibhusaren in full gallop across an open landscape, with captions identifying '1. Leibhus. R.' and '2. Leibhus. R.' above the riders. A decorative red border with ornamental corner devices frames the entire composition, with the title inscription running along all four sides and the bottom legend reading 'VOR DEM GROSSEN KRIEGE', referencing pre-war military costume traditions of the Belgard hussars. The printer's registered design number 'D.R.G.M. 795679' appears along the bottom margin. |
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Belgard — now Białogard in northwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Pomeranian town that, like hundreds of German municipalities, turned to its local savings bank to issue Notgeld when the postwar coin shortage became unworkable. The Sparkasse der Stadt Belgard had no business printing money, but the alternative was commercial paralysis at the smallest denominations.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled an enormous volume of municipal emergency currency during 1920–1922, producing notes for dozens of towns across Silesia and Pomerania. Lippert's credit on the design is unusual — individual designer attribution on Notgeld of this size and function is uncommon, suggesting the Sparkasse wanted something beyond the firm's standard stock layouts.