Catalog
1 Mark
| Issuer | Sparkasse des Ostseebades Brunshaupten |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | The left half carries the denomination numeral '1 M' in a dark cartouche, with a central vignette depicting a farmer milking a cow before a row of beehives, and a further '1 M' cartouche to the right. The account number and serial number appear beneath the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | OSTSEEBAD BRUNSHAUPTEN IM WINTER 1 M D.R.G.M. 795679 |
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Brunshaupten was a small Baltic seaside resort on the Mecklenburg coast — the kind of town whose Sparkasse issued emergency notgeld during the hyperinflationary chaos of the early 1920s primarily to keep local commerce functional when Reichsbank notes were either unavailable in small denominations or depreciating faster than they could be spent. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau printed notgeld for dozens of such minor issuers across northern Germany, producing these small-town pieces in bulk runs.
Glogau is now Głogów in western Poland, but at the time of printing it sat firmly within the German province of Silesia.