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1 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Paderborn |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries the issuer's title in bold Gothic blackletter script within a decorative black and gold bordered panel, flanked left by the numeral '1' in a red-framed cartouche and right by the interlaced 'M' monogram in a matching cartouche. A horizontal text band below reads the historical legend relating to the card game '66' and its origin at Eckkamp 66, Paderborn. The lower section is divided into three zones: at left, a vignette of a playing-card queen of hearts rendered in period illustration style; at centre, the payment text in Gothic script with the denomination '1 Mark' and validity clause dated 10.11.1921, bearing two manuscript signatures on behalf of Der Magistrat; at right, a vignette of the corner building at Eckkamp 66. The designer's credit 'H. Niedieck 1921' appears in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central vignette in a medieval illustrative style, showing four figures in 17th-century costume seated around a table engaged in a card game, with playing cards, a tankard, and a scoreboard visible among them. Above the vignette, a block of Gothic script text recounts in Low German dialect the legend of how the card game '66' was invented in 1652 at the house of Ernestus Fröhlick at Eckkamp No. 66 in Paderborn. The border is composed of red and black rules with decorative red heart and diamond suit symbols in the upper header panel, where the denomination '1 MARK' is spelled out in spaced letters. The printer's imprint 'FR. WILH. RUHFUS DORTM.' appears in the lower margin. |
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Paderborn's municipal savings bank was among hundreds of German local institutions forced into emergency currency issuance during the postwar inflation spiral, when the Reichsbank simply could not produce enough small-denomination notes to meet daily transactional demand. Wilhelm Ruhfus in Dortmund was a workhorse printer for Westphalian Notgeld, handling dozens of municipal commissions simultaneously during 1921.
The DeNG reference suffix distinguishes between known paper variants — the .2-3/4 designation suggests at least two paper or print states have been catalogued for this type, a common situation where a single municipality reordered mid-run without altering the design.