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50 Pfennig Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bolkenhain (Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a winter street scene in Bolkenhain, with snow-covered half-timbered houses lining both sides of the road, a figure with children and a sled in the foreground left, and a group of figures on a balcony to the right; a shop sign reading 'Koppe' is visible on the left building. The ornamental border panels in dark brown and blue are patterned with stylised fir branches and scattered orange stars, with the denomination numeral '50' enclosed within heart-shaped cartouches at lower left and right. A four-line poetic verse in German Gothic script runs beneath the vignette, and the registration mark D.R.G.M. 795 679 appears in the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Wenn die Glocken Dich umschletern und die heilige Weihnacht kam liegt ein einziges und ein heitern Städtlein, auf Dir wundersam D.R.G.M. 795 679 |
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Bolkenhain was a small textile town in the Riesengebirge foothills, and its Stadtsparkasse issued this emergency Kleingeld note during the chronic coin shortage that plagued Germany through the early Weimar inflation years. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau handled a substantial volume of Notgeld commissions from Silesian municipalities during this period — a practical regional arrangement rather than anything distinctive about the issuer.
Glogau would later be nearly obliterated in the 1945 siege; the printing firm did not survive the war intact.