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1 Mark Spar- und Darlehnskasse
| Issuer | Spar- und Darlehnskasse Bad Driburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Bad Driburg i. W. Spar- u. Darlehnskasse Bad Driburg Der Vorsteher: Der Rendant: Sept. 1921 Dieser Schein verliert einen Monat nach öffentl. Bekanntmachung seine Gültigkeit. Dr. Weber Alter Kain aus dessen Wipfeln Sonst die Irmensäule ragte Die zum Schmerz und Schreck der Sachsen König Karl zu brennen wagte 1 Mark |
| Reverse description | Dark-bordered reverse printed in deep olive, black, and red tones, presenting a panoramic colour vignette of the town of Bad Driburg with a prominent Gothic church tower rising above the rooftops, set against rolling green hills. The denomination '1 Mark' appears in red at upper left and upper right corners within the decorative border. A white scroll banner along the lower margin carries the town name in bold Gothic lettering. |
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Bad Driburg's Spar- und Darlehnskasse was a small cooperative savings and loan institution — exactly the kind of local body that issued emergency Notgeld during Germany's acute small-change crisis of 1921, when coin hoarding and inflation had stripped low-denomination currency from everyday commerce. Louis Koch of Halberstadt was a regional printer who supplied Notgeld to several such institutions across central Germany, typically working from simple typeset formats rather than engraved designs.
These cooperative-issued pieces were often printed in short runs tied to immediate local need and redeemed quickly, which makes surviving examples less common than the mass-produced municipal Notgeld of the same period.