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1 Mark Spar- und Darlehnskasse
| Issuer | Spar- und Darlehnskasse der Gemeinde Eisbergen a.d. Weser |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a pair of figures in traditional Westphalian folk costume — a woman in an ornate layered dress with headdress and a man in a white coat with fur trim — set against a hatched background. Flanking the central image are two decorative diamond-shaped cartouches on a green floral underprint ground: the left inscribed "Spar-Darlehns-Kasse" and the right "der Gemeinde Eisbergen a.d. Weser", with the denomination "Eine Mark" split across the upper corners in red Gothic lettering. The lower portion carries the place name, date "März 1921", spaces for two manuscript signatures above the titles "der Vorsteher" and "der Rendant", a serial number, and a validity clause, all within a red scalloped border. |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion of the reverse is occupied by a wide polychrome vignette of a lively folk dance scene, with multiple couples in traditional regional costume in mid-step, accompanied by musicians with stringed instruments at the left margin, rendered in a linear illustrative style. Below the vignette, a central octagonal cartouche on a red crosshatch underprint displays the denomination "1 Mark" in bold Gothic type, flanked on either side by verses in Low German dialect script set within the decorative border. The whole composition is enclosed within the same red scalloped border as the obverse. |
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Eisbergen is a small village on the Weser river in what is now eastern North Rhine-Westphalia. Its savings and loan cooperative — a Spar- und Darlehnskasse, the Raiffeisen-type rural credit institution common across German farming communities — issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's postwar inflation spiral. Municipal and cooperative emergency currency flooded the country in 1921, with thousands of local bodies printing their own fractional notes simply to keep daily trade moving.
Meyer in Bad Oeynhausen was a regional printer well-positioned to serve the surrounding Weser district cooperatives. The DeNG reference places this within a documented series, suggesting at least four known variants for this issuer.