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3 Mark
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Malchow |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the obverse carries a vignette of the Malchow municipal coat of arms — a red brick twin-towered gate with a heart and a horn set between the towers, enclosed by decorative scrollwork — within a ruled border panel, below which a banner reading 'MALCHOW i/M' is inscribed at the top. The right half bears the issuing text in Gothic blackletter script authorizing payment from the Sparkasse der Stadt Malchow in Mecklenburg to the bearer, with the denomination 'Drei Mark' set in a red-bordered cartouche in bold Gothic type. The printer's imprint 'FLEMMING u. WISKOTT-A.-G.-GLOGAU' appears below the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | MALCHOW i/M Die Sparkasse der Stadt Malchow in Mecklenburg. Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Drei Mark Malchow i/M. FLEMMING u. WISKOTT-A.-G.-GLOGAU |
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Malchow is a small lake-district town in Mecklenburg, and its municipal savings bank — the Sparkasse der Stadt Malchow — issued notgeld like hundreds of similar institutions during the inflationary chaos following Germany's defeat in 1918. The 3 Mark denomination sits in an awkward zone: too large for the smallest everyday transactions that drove most notgeld production, too small to matter once hyperinflation accelerated through 1922–23.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau was a prolific commercial printer of provincial notgeld, handling dozens of small municipal contracts simultaneously. Quality was consistent but unremarkable across their output.