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1 Mark
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Ziesar |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels within a red and black decorative border. The left panel contains a letterpress vignette of a church tower with surrounding trees, while the right panel shows a round medieval tower and castle ruins set against a sky underprint. The central panel carries the city name 'Ziesar' in bold Gothic script over a heraldic shield bearing a key, flanked by the denomination 'M' in ornamental red cartouches at the upper corners, with the value 'Eine Mark' in large Gothic lettering at the foot and the account designation 'Konto C' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Städtische Sparkasse Ziesar zahle gegen diesen Schein aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Eine Mark Ziesar (Bez. Mgb.) Konto C |
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Ziesar is a small town in Brandenburg, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — was among the thousands of local German institutions that issued emergency paper money during the acute coin shortage that developed from 1914 onward. This is Notgeld in its most local form: a note whose entire circulation would have been confined to a town most Germans couldn't have found on a map.
Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G. in Glogau printed enormous quantities of municipal Notgeld for small issuers across Germany, which is part of why so many of these minor series survived in collector hands — printers often retained sample sheets.