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75 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Lähn im Riesengebirge |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and teal on cream paper, with a tripartite layout. A narrow silhouette frieze at the top centre portrays industrial workers erecting telegraph or electrical poles against the sky. The dominant central vignette is a detailed landscape view of the Queis valley dam (Talsperre) near Mauer, rendered in fine line engraving with rolling hills, a reservoir, and the dam structure with buildings below. Flanking side panels carry birch-tree motifs, while the inscription across the lower centre identifies the scene, and lateral captions proclaim Lähn as "die Perle des Bobertales". |
| Reverse lettering | 75 75 Lähn die Perle des Bobertales. Die Talsperre bei Mauer. D.R.G.M. 795679 |
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Lähn im Riesengebirge was a small spa town in Lower Silesia, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — issued this Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott press in Glogau was a workhorse of Silesian emergency currency production, turning out small-denomination notes for dozens of local issuers across the region in quick succession.
Lähn itself became Wleń after the postwar border shifts handed the territory to Poland, then passed to Germany again, then definitively to Poland in 1945. The savings bank that issued this note ceased to exist in any recognizable form long before that final transfer.