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2 Mark Allgemeine Spar- und Leihkasse der Insel Sylt
| Issuer | Allgemeine Spar- und Leihkasse der Insel Sylt GmbH, Keitum |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Allgemeine Spar- und Leihkasse der Insel Sylt G.m.b.H. Keituma Sylt 2 Mark Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Konto Uus Flag wai fri aut Sölring Lön Hoop on di Nuurdsee [Din] Keitum auf Sylt No. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 MARK MARK 2 Föslig Johr Sölring Sparkass 1872 1922 ABMARSCH DER ÖSTERREICHER 1864 (nach derzeit. Holzschnitt) BUCHDRUCKEREI CARL MEYER WESTERLAND-SYLT |
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Sylt's wartime and postwar isolation made local small-denomination scrip a practical necessity, but by 1922 the island was issuing notgeld squarely in the inflationary spiral that was consuming the entire Weimar Republic. The Allgemeine Spar- und Leihkasse in Keitum — a savings and loan cooperative, not a municipal authority — was one of the more unusual issuers in the Schleswig-Holstein region, a private institution stepping into a currency gap that the Reichsbank had no interest in filling at the pfennig-and-mark level.
Printed locally by Carl Meyer in Westerland, this note never traveled far. Sylt's limited land connection to the mainland meant circulation was geographically contained almost by geography alone.