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1 Mark
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Hofgeismar |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreis Hofgeismar Reinhardswald 1 Mark Die Kreissparkasse zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Eine Mark Konto F |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 1 Gebrüder Gotthelft, Cassel |
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Hofgeismar is a small town in northern Hesse, and its Kreissparkasse — the district savings bank — was among the hundreds of local German institutions that issued emergency small-change notes (Kleingeldscheine) during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in 1917–1918. These weren't banknotes in the central-bank sense; they were stopgap instruments, locally authorized and locally redeemable, intended to keep daily commerce moving when metal had been redirected to the war effort.
Gebrüder Gotthelft in Cassel printed a substantial volume of Notgeld for Hessian issuers during this period. The DeNG suffix variants (.2-4/5) indicate multiple sub-types within the series — likely differing in date, signature, or overprint detail.