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1.50 Mark
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Hofgeismar |
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| Size | 76.8 × 52.4 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in black with an ochre-yellow two-colour underprint, presents a full-width architectural vignette of Schloss Wilhelmsthal, a Baroque palace rendered in a bold woodcut-style graphic with billowing clouds above and shrubbery to either side. Denomination panels reading '1,50' appear in ornamental cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners. The palace name 'Schloss Wilhelmsthal' is inscribed in a decorative script banner across the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 1,50 1,50 Schloss Wilhelmsthal |
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Hofgeismar is a small town in Hesse-Nassau, and its Kreissparkasse — a district savings bank, not a central or state institution — issued this note as emergency currency (Notgeld) during the acute coin shortages of the First World War period. The 1.50 Mark denomination is characteristically awkward, chosen precisely because standard coinage could not cover that value in circulation.
Gebrüder Gotthelft in Kassel were a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, yet the watermarked paper here represents a real attempt at anti-counterfeiting in a note issued by a body with no formal currency-issuing authority whatsoever.