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1 Mark
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Hofgeismar |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a boldly rendered intaglio-style vignette of a bellowing red deer stag standing in a meadow landscape, with rocky outcrops and deciduous trees receding into the background under a cloud-filled sky. Denomination circles bearing the red numeral "1" are placed at lower left and right corners within the composition. The printer's imprint "Gebrüder Gotthelft, Cassel" appears in small letterpress text along the lower left margin, beneath a red and black border rule at the top edge. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 1 Gebrüder Gotthelft, Cassel |
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Hofgeismar is a small town in northern Hesse, and its Kreissparkasse — the district savings bank — was among the hundreds of local German institutions that issued emergency small-change notes (Kleingeldscheine) during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in 1917–1918. These weren't banknotes in the central-bank sense; they were stopgap instruments, locally authorized and locally redeemable, intended to keep daily commerce moving when metal had been redirected to the war effort.
Gebrüder Gotthelft in Cassel printed a substantial volume of Notgeld for Hessian issuers during this period. The DeNG suffix variants (.2-4/5) indicate multiple sub-types within the series — likely differing in date, signature, or overprint detail.