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3 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Attendorn |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central panel bears the heraldic shield of Attendorn — a black cross on white field with a crescent in the upper-left quarter — surmounted by a crenellated city gate vignette. The denomination 'Drei Mark' is rendered in large Gothic (Fraktur) script to the right of the arms. Flanking panels carry pen-and-ink vignettes of local medieval towers, captioned 'Bieckerturm' at left and 'Pulverturm' at right, each above a blue denomination panel reading '3 M'; the lower margin bears the issuing authority and magistrate line. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed lithographic view of Schloss und Ruine Schnellenberg, a hilltop castle complex surrounded by dense woodland, rendered in a warm ochre and black palette. The upper border carries the jubilee inscription '700jähriges Stadtjubiläum' in Gothic lettering, flanked by the founding and jubilee years '1222' and '1922' in the lateral panels. Blue denomination panels lettered '3 M' appear at lower left and right, and a descriptive caption 'Schloß u. Ruine Schnellenberg' runs along the lower border. |
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Attendorn is a small Hanseatic town in the Sauerland, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — was among hundreds of local German institutions forced into emergency currency issuance during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1922. These Notgeld issues were not optional: Reichsbank notes were hoarded or destroyed faster than they could be printed, leaving municipalities, businesses, and savings banks to fill the gap themselves.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau handled enormous volumes of Notgeld commissions during this period, which means production quality is consistent but the notes were never meant to outlast the crisis by more than weeks.