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1.50 Mark Stadtsparkasse
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bolkenhain |
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| Value | 1.50 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a detailed woodcut-style panoramic view of Bolkenhain in Silesia, with the hilltop castle ruins rising above the town's rooftops and church spires, signed 'HANDKE' at lower right of the vignette. Two stone-carved standing figures on pedestals flank the central scene — a male figure with staff at left and a draped female figure at right — each set within ornate architectural niches. The lower portion carries the denomination inscription 'Eine Mark und Fünfzig Pfennig' alongside the town's coat of arms, with the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING – WISKOTT – A.-G. GLOGAU' along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Schön bist Du in Frühlingstagen alte Burgruine droben In dem ersten Glanz der Sonne von dem frischen Grün umwoben BURG SCHWEINHAUS IN SCHLESIEN BRUNO HANDKE D. R. G. M. 795679 |
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Bolkenhain was a small Silesian textile town — today Bolków, in southwestern Poland — and its Stadtsparkasse issued this 1.50 Mark note during the Notgeld period when Germany's central monetary system was effectively unable to supply adequate small change. The 1.50 Mark denomination is itself a curiosity: most Notgeld issuers stuck to round figures, and the half-mark increment suggests a very specific local need, probably tied to wage rounding in the town's mills.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were a well-established regional printing house with a long record of producing Silesian municipal paper. Bruno Handke's design credit is unusually specific for a note of this type and scale.