1.50 Mark Sparkasse

Schneidemühl — now Piła in northwestern Poland — was a Prussian railway junction town whose municipal savings bank issued notgeld during the paper money chaos of the early Weimar period. The 1.50 Mark denomination is characteristically awkward, a value that only made practical sense when small change had entirely vanished from circulation and issuers were filling gaps with whatever arithmetic kept the local economy moving.

Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were a prolific regional printer of notgeld and commercial ephemera — their output for smaller Silesian and Pomeranian municipalities was enormous, and their notes are often better engraved than the issuing institution deserved.