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2 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bolkenhain |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note is dominated by a detailed landscape vignette of the town of Bolkenhain in Silesia, with its church steeples and the ruined hilltop castle rendered in a fine woodcut style by the artist Händke, signed at lower right of the vignette. Flanking the central scene are two standing stone-like sculptural figures — a male figure at left and a female figure at right — set against blue pilaster panels with gold borders. Below the vignette, the town name 'BOLKENHAIN IN SCHLESIEN' appears in bold gold Gothic lettering, beneath which a blue panel carries the denomination text in ornate script alongside the town's heraldic shield at centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | die Stadtsparkasse BOLKENHAIN IN SCHLESIEN zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben Zwei= Mark Bolkenhain i/Gebl. den Verein für Heimalpflege FLEMMING · WISKOTT · A.·G. GLOGAU |
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Flemming & Wiskott was among the more prolific Silesian printers of Notgeld during the hyperinflation period, and their Glogau operation handled a substantial volume of small-municipality emergency issues from across the region. Bolkenhain — now Bolków in Lower Silesia — was a town of modest size, and its Stadtsparkasse issued this note as local coin shortages made small-denomination transactions increasingly impractical in 1922.
The designer credit to Händke is relatively uncommon for municipal Notgeld of this tier, where printer house styles usually absorbed individual attribution entirely.