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1 Mark
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Geldern |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is occupied by a full-width multicolour woodcut-style vignette rendering a medieval scene of two armoured knights in combat with a large green dragon, flames issuing from the beast's jaws. A decorative border in blue and gold frames the composition on all four sides, with Low German verse inscriptions running along the top and side margins in blackletter script. Denomination cartouches appear at upper left and right, and the design registration number 'D.R.G.M. 795679' is printed in the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Twee die hadde gau gesiehn, Wor't Bees den Ohren hiel. Se häie Muth On dat Dier wie 'ne Pier, krümmde Lech van hinn Niee rub met den Burt On plerrt met de Stert On speide Nammenschinn D.R.G.M. 795679. |
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Kreissparkasse Geldern was a district savings bank serving the Lower Rhine region, and like hundreds of similar institutions in 1922, it issued Notgeld to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of small-denomination Reichsmark coins as hyperinflation made metal coinage economically nonviable to produce and circulate. These notes were legally tolerated emergency issues, not formally sanctioned Reichsbank currency.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau (now Głogów, in present-day Poland) was among the more prolific provincial Notgeld printers of the period, handling contracts from municipal and savings bank issuers across a wide geographic range during 1921–1923.