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4 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Attendorn |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | die städtische Sparkasse Attendom i/W. zahle gegen diesen Schein aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Vier Mark Attendom i/W. Der Magistrat: Konto E Flemming u. Wiskott-A.G. Glogau. |
| Reverse description | The central panel carries a panoramic bird's-eye view of old Attendorn, rendered in a detailed pen-and-ink style with the town church, fortifications, and surrounding agricultural fields visible; the artist's signature 'Grimmer / Kaiwus' appears in the upper right corner of the vignette. Flanking columns each bear the municipal coat of arms — black cross with crescent on white — above stylised Gothic gatehouses and the blue denomination numeral '4 m' at the foot. The heading '700 jähriges Stadtjubiläum' spans the top with the founding and jubilee years '1222' and '1922' at the outer corners, while the bottom legend reads 'Alt-Attendorn, Festung u. Hansastadt'. |
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Attendorn is a small Hanseatic town in Westphalia, 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. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott AG in Glogau was one of the more prolific provincial printers of Notgeld, handling commissions from dozens of municipalities simultaneously that year.
Glogau itself would later become Głogów following the postwar border redrawing, which is why the printer's location appears inconsistently in catalogs — German city, Polish name, same press.