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1 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Schneidemühl |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a decorative red and grey border with stylised foliate ornaments. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Schneidemühl — a shield bearing a leaping red stag beneath a red crenellated tower — forms the principal vignette, flanked by two red oval cartouches each bearing the denomination '1 M.' in bold letterpress. To the left, a text panel reads the payment instruction in Gothic script, while the account designation 'Konto K' and a serial number appear at lower left and lower right respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT SCHNEIDEMÜHL. EHEMALIGE LUFTSCHIFFHALLE MIT ZEPPELIN D. R. G. M. 795679. |
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Schneidemühl — now Piła in northwestern Poland — sat in the middle of a territorial dispute following Versailles, with the town itself initially placed under an Inter-Allied Commission before being awarded to Germany in 1920. Municipal savings banks like the Städtische Sparkasse were issuing emergency Kleingeld not out of institutional ambition but simple necessity: Reichsbank coin had effectively vanished from everyday commerce by 1921, absorbed by hoarding and metal speculation.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott's Glogau plant handled a substantial volume of Notgeld commissions across the region during this period. The firm's proximity to the contested eastern borderlands made it a natural choice for municipal issuers in Posen and Pomerania.