Catalog
2 Mark
| Issuer | Sparkasse des Ostseebades Brunshaupten |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two panels with a light blue underprint on the left and an illustrated vignette on the right. The left panel carries the issuing authority's name in bold letterpress, the denomination "Zwei Mark" flanking a large numeral "2" within a black diamond cartouche with orange lettering reading "MARK", and the payment text below the issuer's name. The right panel presents a rural vignette of a milkmaid crouching beside a tethered cow in a coastal meadow, with straw beehives in the middle ground and a Baltic seascape beyond, captioned with a Low German verse in a banner at the top. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out in three vertical panels on an orange and blue colour scheme. The central panel bears a large scenic vignette of the Landungsbrücke (landing pier) at Ostseebad Brunshaupten, with flagpoles, beach chairs, and a paddle steamer at the quay rendered in fine line illustration; the caption "Ostseebad Brunshaupten / Landungsbrücke" appears in the black band beneath. The flanking panels each carry the denomination numeral "2 M" in orange on a dark ground and are filled with beach-scene vignettes — a woman with children at a beach hut to the left and a bather with a dog to the right. |
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Brunshaupten was a small Baltic seaside resort on the Mecklenburg coast — the kind of place that issued its own emergency currency during the Notgeld period precisely because the nearest banking infrastructure was inadequate for the seasonal tourist influx. The Sparkasse here acted as the practical issuing authority when small-change shortages became acute, roughly 1921–1922.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled a large volume of provincial Notgeld contracts during this period, which accounts for the consistently competent print quality found across these small-denomination resort issues.