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3 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Brühl bei Köln |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and blue Notgeld cheque with a scalloped outer border framing a tripartite layout. The central vignette presents the crowned coat of arms of Cologne — a blue and white quartered shield with eleven flames and a black cross, supported by elaborate acanthus scrollwork — beneath a ribbon cartouche bearing the issuer inscription. Flanking white panels carry the denomination numeral '3 M' in brown script within blue-bordered shield cartouches at upper left and right, with text panels below; at the foot, a dateline reads 'Köln, den / Kreissparkasse Köln' alongside a handwritten date and serial number, with the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G.-GLOGAU' below the frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1723-1761 Clemens August Kurfürst v. Cöln Schloss Augustusburg Ein Wunderwerk der Kunst, uns anvertraut: Des Fürsten sei gedacht, der es erbaut. D.R.G.M. 795579. |
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Städtische Sparkasse Brühl bei Köln was one of hundreds of German municipal savings banks forced into emergency money issuance during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922, when the Reichsmark was depreciating faster than the Reichsdruckerei could supply adequate coinage and small-denomination notes. The result was a proliferation of Notgeld — locally authorized scrip that filled the gap in everyday transactions. Brühl, a small town just south of Cologne, had no printing capacity of its own.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau, Silesia, handled enormous volumes of municipal Notgeld contracts during this period — their output for dozens of small German issuers makes attribution straightforward when the printer's credit appears.