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1 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Ratibor |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | EINE MARK Die Stadtsparkasse Ratibor o/S zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus unserem Guthaben an den Inhaber Eine Mark Ratibor o/S FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G-GLOGAU. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and green and centres on a detailed line-engraved vignette of the Mariensäule (Marian Column) in Ratibor's market square, with a Gothic church spire visible to the right and surrounding townscape in the background; the caption "MARIEN-SÄULE" is inscribed above the vignette. To the left stands the city arms of Ratibor bearing an eagle, and to the right the armorial shield of the von Gaschin family, both rendered within decorative foliate surrounds. The denomination "EINE MARK" runs along the top border and "Ratibor O/S" along the bottom border, both in Gothic lettering on green ground, with the ornamental geometric frame continuing the motif of the obverse; the printer's design registration "D.R.G.M. 795679." is printed below the frame. |
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Ratibor — now Racibórz in southwestern Poland — was a Silesian town caught in the political turbulence of the early 1920s. The 1921 Upper Silesian plebiscite awarded the town to Germany, but the surrounding industrial region was partitioned, and the resulting economic disruption hit local institutions hard. Municipal savings banks across the region issued their own emergency money — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank notes during the inflationary spiral.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau was a reliable regional printer for this type of municipal paper, handling numerous Silesian Notgeld commissions in 1921–22.