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1 Mark Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Lähn im Riesengebirge |
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| Printer | Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott A.G., Glogau, Poland |
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| Obverse lettering | Lähn im Riesengebirge DIE TAUBENGUSTEL, DAS WAHRZEICHEN VON LÄHN Die städtische Sparkasse Lähn im Riesengebirge Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber EINE • MARK Lähn i. Riesengeb. M FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G.-GLOGAU |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 Mark Lähn, die Perle des Bobertales! Sanatorium D.R.G.M. 795679 |
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Städtische Sparkasse Lähn im Riesengebirge was one of hundreds of municipal savings banks that issued notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward. Lähn itself — now Wleń, in Lower Silesia — was a small market town in the Riesengebirge foothills, and its savings bank had neither the standing nor the volume to warrant a major printing contract. Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau was the logical choice: a regional commercial printer with the equipment and proximity to service exactly these kinds of small municipal accounts efficiently.