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5 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Ratibor |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in black and ochre with a fine guilloche underprint and carries three oval vignettes arranged horizontally within a decorative frame. The left oval contains a portrait bust of Joseph von Eichendorff; the central oval presents a view of Schloss Lubowitz as it appeared during Eichendorff's lifetime; and the right oval bears the armorial achievement of the von Eichendorff family. Inscribed arcs above and below the vignettes carry quotations in Gothic script referencing the poet and the estate. The denomination "Fünf Mark" appears in the upper banner and "Ratibor o/S" in the lower, with the numeral "5" at each corner. The design patent reference "D.R.G.M. 795679" is printed below the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünf Mark Joseph von Eichendorff Schloß Lubowitz zur Zeit der Eichendorffs Wappen der von Eichendorff Gedenks du noch des Gartens und Schlosses überm Wald, des träumenden Erwartens, ob denn nicht Frühling bald Ratibor o/S D.R.G.M. 795679 |
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Ratibor — now Racibórz in southwestern Poland — was a border flashpoint in the early 1920s. Following the Upper Silesian plebiscite of March 1921 and the subsequent League of Nations partition, the region was divided between Germany and Poland in October 1921. Ratibor itself remained German, but the economic disruption was immediate and severe. Municipal savings banks across the region issued emergency Notgeld to cover the liquidity shortfall that commercial banks could no longer reliably address.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott, based in Glogau, were among the more prolific printers of provincial German Notgeld during this period — their output was competent and fast, which mattered more than elegance in 1922.