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1 Mark
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Belgard |
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| Printer | Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G., Glogau, Poland |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries a central vignette of the Belgard city coat of arms — a shield bearing a rampant griffin — flanked by ornate baroque scrollwork and surmounted by a heraldic griffin passant. Two dark oval cartouches at left and right each bear the cursive denomination '1 M'. A serial number panel with account designation 'Konto E' runs across the top. The lower text panel, framed by a ruled border, contains the issuer's payment obligation in German blackletter script, with the place name 'Belgard' at lower left and the printer's imprint 'Flemming-Wiskott A.-G. Glogau' at the base. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed line-art view of a narrow historic alleyway in Belgard, captioned 'Am Strüllengang', with timber-framed buildings rising on either side. Denomination numerals '1' in orange overprint appear on both the left and right margins, each accompanied by the word 'Mark' in blackletter. The borders are decorated with symmetrical orange and grey baroque scroll ornaments. The design registration number 'D.R.G.M. 795679' is printed in the bottom margin below the note's frame. |
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Belgard — now Białogard in northwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Pomeranian town whose municipal savings bank, the Sparkasse der Stadt Belgard, issued notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early years of the First World War. These small-denomination emergency issues were a local solution to a national problem: hoarding of metal coinage left retail transactions nearly impossible. The Sparkasse had no printing mandate beyond immediate necessity.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau handled the printing — a firm with deep roots in commercial and cartographic work in Silesia, not a specialist security printer.