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3 Mark
| Issuer | Spar- und Leihkasse Weener (Ems) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a vignette of the Lilienbahn railway accident near Weener (Ems) in July 1913, showing the derailed locomotive partially submerged, with a Low German dialect verse below referencing Germany's post-war situation and a call for collective effort. The design is executed in a letterpress style with decorative border elements typical of German Notgeld issues of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse lettering | Rheiderländische Volkstracht Ablauf der Einlösungszeit: 1. Dezember 1922 War de Jungens wall so fix? (Translation: Rheiderland folk costume / Expiry of the redemption period: 1 December 1922 / Were the lads really so quick?) |
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Weener, a small market town on the lower Ems in East Friesland, issued this note during the acute coin shortage of 1922, when municipal bodies, savings banks, and cooperative lenders across Germany were producing Kleingeldersatz in enormous variety. The Spar- und Leihkasse — a savings and loan institution, not a municipal authority — had standing to issue such notes under the inflationary emergency framework that effectively collapsed later that same year as hyperinflation rendered small-denomination paper obsolete almost immediately after printing.
Selmar Bayer was a Berlin commercial printer responsible for a significant volume of provincial Notgeld work during this period.