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5 Mark Sparkasse, linen issue
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bielefeld (City Savings Bank of Bielefeld) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Mark Stdt. Sparkasse EINGELOEST AN ALLEN OEFFENTLICHEN KASSEN IN BIELEFELD UND HALLE Bielefeld, 15. Juli 1921 zahle gegen diese Platzanweisung aus unserem Guthaben an Überbringer der Magistrat DIESER SCHEIN WIRD BIS ZUM 1. OKTOBER 1922 |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 Mark Fünf Mark 700 JAHRE STADT BIELEFELD 1221 · 1921 15. MAI · 15. JULI Bielefelder Wäsche Industrie SPINNEREI · WEBEREI · WÄSCHE · NAEHMASCHINEN NAHRUNGSMITTEL FAHRRÄDER · AUTOMOBILE SEIDEN · PLÜESCH · TABAK · MÖBEL · MASCHINEN WALD-KRUG Damit das Glück Dich voll erfasse — Bring Bargeld schnell zur Stadt-Sparkasse STADT-SPARKASSE |
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Bielefeld's Stadtsparkasse was one of several municipal institutions that turned to textile-based notgeld in 1921, when paper shortages and hyperinflationary pressure made conventional banknote stock impractical. The E. Gundlach printing house, based in Bielefeld itself, had the industrial weaving and printing connections to make linen issues viable locally — a rare convergence of printer and issuer in the same city that kept production costs and logistics manageable.
Linen notgeld degrades differently from paper: the fabric resists tearing but attracts soil along fold lines, and ink adhesion varies across the weave. Gra#16 is among the more frequently encountered of the Bielefeld textile issues, though genuinely uncirculated examples with clean fold intersections are not.