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1.5 Mark
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Lähn im Riesengebirge |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in green and black on plain paper. A central vignette presents the town's heraldic tree — a stylized birch set within a shield-shaped cartouche framed by draped green curtains — flanked on both sides by large denomination panels reading '1,50 Mark' in bold Gothic lettering within dotted borders. A decorative scroll banner at the top carries the town name in ornate blackletter script, while the lower section bears the issuing authority's mandate text and the denomination spelled out in full, with a serial number and series letter at bottom left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Lähn nach dem Abzug der Franzosen am 18. August 1813. 150 D.R.G.M. 795679 u. D.R.P. angemeldet. |
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Lähn im Riesengebirge — now Wleń, in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld through its municipal savings bank during the inflationary emergency period, when the central monetary system had effectively ceased to function at the small-transaction level. The 1.5 Mark denomination is notably awkward, a figure that appears in very few Notgeld series and suggests a specific gap in local coin circulation rather than conventional practice.
Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security press — their Notgeld output was extensive but technically modest.