Catalog
3 Mark
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Ziesar |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three vertical panels printed in red, green, and black. The left panel carries a finely engraved vignette of a Gothic church tower amid trees, with the account designation 'Konto B' in a red banner below. The central panel, printed on a vivid red ground, bears the issuing authority's name 'Ziesar' in bold Fraktur script above the municipal coat of arms — a shield bearing two crossed keys — flanked by the promise-to-pay text; the denomination 'drei Mark' is rendered in large Fraktur lettering at the foot of the panel, with 'Ziesar (Bez. Mgb.)' in a white cartouche beneath. The right panel presents an engraved vignette of a medieval round tower and ruined castle walls, with the serial number in a red banner below; corner ornaments in red frame the entire composition, and the printer's imprint 'Flemming u. Wiskott A.G. Glogau' appears in the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Städtische Sparkasse Ziesar zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Aufhaben an den Inhaber drei Mark Ziesar (Bez. Mgb.) Konto B Flemming u. Wiskott A.G. Glogau |
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Ziesar is a small town in the Jerichow district of Brandenburg, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — was among the thousands of local German institutions that resorted to Notgeld in 1921 as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination currency in circulation. Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were prolific printers of this material, supplying municipalities across Silesia and Brandenburg with competent if unremarkable work.
Ziesar's issues are not among the more aggressively collected Brandenburg Notgeld series, which keeps prices grounded.