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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Malchow |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | MALCHOW i/M Die Sparkasse der Stadt Malchow in Mecklenburg, zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Fünfzig Pfennig Malchow i/M. FLEMMING u. WISKOTT-A.-G.-GLOGAU |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely drawn landscape vignette set within a rope-bordered oval frame against a vivid red underprint with floral corner ornaments: a lakeside scene with tall bare trees in the foreground, an iron gate and stone arch at centre-left, and the spire of the Malchow monastery rising above the treeline across the water, captioned in a scroll cartouche 'BLICK VON ERDDAMM AUF DAS KLOSTER'. The numeral '50' appears at the top centre in open outline figures, and a bold legend in a rectangular panel at the foot reads 'MALCHOW, DIE PERLE INMITTEN DER MECKLENBURGISCHEN SEENPLATTE'. The design registration number 'D.R.G.M. 795679' is printed in the lower margin. |
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Malchow is a small lake-district town in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it turned to local notgeld during the chronic small-change shortage that persisted well beyond the First World War. The Sparkasse — a municipal savings bank, not a commercial institution — was an unusual issuing authority even by notgeld standards; most towns delegated that role to the mayor's office or the chamber of commerce.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled enormous volumes of provincial notgeld commissions in this period, which makes their output variable in ambition but generally reliable in execution.