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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Malchow |
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| Printer | Flemming & Wiskott A.G., Glogau |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the obverse carries the municipal coat of arms of Malchow within a decorative cartouche — a heraldic shield displaying two brick towers flanking a heart and a leaping rabbit, surmounted by a mural crown and supported by foliate mantling, with the town name 'MALCHOW i/M' inscribed above. The right half presents the issuing text in blackletter Gothic script, with the denomination 'Fünf- und Zwanzig Pfennig' set within a red-bordered rectangular panel. At the foot of the note, account reference 'Konto No 1' appears at left and 'Stadtkasse.' at right, with the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING u. WISKOTT-A.-G.-GLOGAU' in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central vignette in finely detailed letterpress, showing a panoramic waterfront view of the town and monastery of Malchow in Mecklenburg, with a church steeple and cluster of buildings reflected in the foreground lake beneath a dramatic clouded sky. The vignette is enclosed within an oval frame set against a bold red and gold decorative border with stylised floral and fruit motifs at the corners, with the denomination numeral '25' printed in each upper corner. A dark banner at the foot of the central image carries the town's motto in Gothic script, and the design registration number 'D.R.G.M. 795679.' appears in the lower margin. |
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Malchow is a small lake-district town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These Notgeld issues were a local administrative decision, not a banking one; the Sparkasse acted as issuer of convenience rather than as a monetary authority in any meaningful sense.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling commissions from municipalities across northern and eastern Germany. Their output was competent and consistent, which makes attribution straightforward when printer credits survive on the note.