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1 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bolkenhain |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Carl Flemming & Wiskott A.G., Glogau |
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| Obverse lettering | die Stadtsparkasse BOLKENHAIN in SCHLESIEN Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben Eine = Mark Bolkenhain i/Gehl. den Verein für Heimatpflege FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G. GLOGAU |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark tones with red accents, centred on a double-arch vignette presenting two ruined castles — Burg Schweinhaus at left and Bolkoburg at right — separated by a column, with two armoured medieval knights standing as sentinels on either side of the composition. A ribbon cartouche below the arches carries a four-line German verse, and a horizontal amber-toned strip at the foot illustrates a narrative scene with multiple figures set against a ruined wall. The denomination "1 M" appears in shield-shaped cartouches at the lower left and right corners, and a serial number is printed at the lower right margin. |
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Bolkenhain — now Bolków in Lower Silesia — was a small Silesian market town with no particular financial weight, yet like hundreds of similar municipalities in 1922 it was forced into issuing its own emergency currency as Weimar-era hyperinflation consumed the Reichsmark's purchasing power faster than the Reichsbank could supply notes. The Stadtsparkasse's recourse to Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau was a practical one: the firm was one of Silesia's most capable commercial printers and handled notgeld commissions for numerous regional issuers simultaneously.
Flemming & Wiskott's Glogau plant is itself now behind a border that didn't exist when this note was printed — the city became Głogów, Poland, after 1945.