3 Mark

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.