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2 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse Bad Elster |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Tripartite design printed in blue, brown, and black on cream paper. The central panel, set against a blue ground, bears the issuer inscription 'DIE SPARKASSE BAD ELSTER' at the top above a circular vignette of a magpie perched on a birdbath; below, the text 'ZAHLE GEGEN DIESEN SCHECK AUS MEINEM GUTHABEN AN DEN INHABER' precedes the bold denomination legend 'ZWEI MARK'. The flanking side panels each carry a blue denomination numeral '2' at the top and a vignette of a decorative fountain below; the bottom border contains the account designation 'Konto A' at lower left, 'BAD ELSTER' at centre, and the serial number at lower right, with the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING-WISKOTT AG GLOGAU' beneath the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | BAD ELSTER DAS KURHAUS DIE PERLE DES VOGTLANDES BETTYBANK WALDFRIEDEN D.R.G.M. 795679 |
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Bad Elster is a small spa town in the Vogtland region of Saxony, and its Sparkasse — a municipal savings institution rather than a commercial bank — issued this note during the acute small-change shortage of 1922, when hyperinflation was eroding the utility of official coinage faster than the Reichsbank could respond. Thousands of German municipalities, corporations, and local savings banks did the same that year; the phenomenon was called Serienscheine or Notgeld, and the volume of issuers makes municipal attribution critical to accurate cataloguing.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau was a well-established Silesian printing house that handled a significant share of provincial Notgeld contracts in this period.