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500 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgirokasse Sagan (City of Sagan, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 500 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Sagan Reihe D Die Stadtgirokasse in Sagan zahlt gegen diesen Schein an den Inhaber Fünfhundert Mark Sagan, den 22. September 1922 Der Magistrat Dieser Schein verliert mit dem 10. November 1922 seine Gültigkeit. Eine Verlängerung der Laufzeit über den 10. November 1922 hinaus wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.-G. GLOGAU-BERLIN-BRESLAU |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 Ungültig |
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Sagan — now Żagań in southwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Lower Silesian town best known, if at all, to later generations for its Stalag Luft III camp. In 1922 it was an unremarkable German municipality caught in the same hyperinflationary spiral that forced hundreds of city treasuries and savings offices to issue their own emergency denominations. The Stadtgirokasse, essentially a municipal giro clearinghouse rather than a proper bank, had no natural business issuing currency — necessity made it one.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were a natural choice for regional Notgeld commissions throughout Silesia during this period, handling volume work for multiple municipal issuers simultaneously.