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3 Mark
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Xanten |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 3 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | XANTEN STADT A.RHEIN WERT 3 MARK Ser. A Die Städtische Sparkasse "XANTEN" zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Drei Mark der Bürgermeister: XANTEN, im Jahre 1921. Konto No 87. SIEGEL DER STADT XANTEN Dieser Scheck wird von allen städtischen Kassen eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Dez. 1922. ST. VICTOR VON XANTEN |
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| Reverse lettering | 1. Et trock noh Sante vör tweedüsend Joahre De Kaiser Augustus, want hej hat geschwoare, En Kasteel te bouwe an de Rhin bej Sante Met all sin Legione on all sin Trabante. "Legatenpalast" im Röm. Lager VETERA b. Xanten. (Rekonstruktion auf Grund der Ausgrabungen) Schleicher & Schull Düren |
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Xanten's municipal savings bank joined the vast wave of German Notgeld issuance during the postwar inflation crisis, when coin shortages and currency instability forced hundreds of local authorities to print their own provisional money. Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren was a paper manufacturer rather than a specialist security printer — their involvement reflects how desperate issuers were for any capable local supplier.
Xanten itself is a small Rhine town with a Roman past entirely disproportionate to its modern size, but none of that history explains or distinguishes this particular note from thousands of contemporaneous municipal issues.