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3 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Schmiedeberg |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and ochre on cream paper within a double-rule border. The header bears the Gothic script legend 'Die Stadtsparkasse Schmiedeberg i. R.' across the full width. The central vignette presents a sculptural war memorial on a stone plinth, with two combatant figures in relief against a radiating sunburst underprint. The left panel carries the payment text and a circular denomination cartouche reading '3 Mark' in ornate lettering with 'Konto B' below, while the right panel bears the city's crowned heraldic seal inscribed 'SIGIL. CIVITATIS REGIAE SCHMIEDEBERGENSIS' alongside a manuscript date space and the serial number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a rich multicolour palette of blue, green, ochre, and black. The central vignette, signed by the artist W. H. Lippert, renders a genre scene of the arrival of Tyrolean emigrants from the Zillertal at Schmiedeberg in September 1837, with a covered wagon, figures in traditional costume, and a rural landscape with a hilltop chapel. Flanking side panels each carry a stylised female figure in regional dress and a denomination cartouche marked '3 M', with the full descriptive legend in Gothic script along the top and bottom margins. |
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Schmiedeberg — now Kowary, in what is today southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian textile town, and its Stadtsparkasse issued notgeld like hundreds of other German municipalities scrambling to fill the small-denomination coin vacuum that emerged during and after the First World War. Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled a vast volume of this regional emergency currency, which means the printing quality here is competent but unremarkable.
The watermarked paper signals an attempt at basic security on a note that would have circulated purely locally and briefly.