1,50 Mark, Staedtische Sparkasse Schneidemuehl, 1920
Die Staedtische Sparkasse Schneidemuehl
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00639
- Serial
- Konto K 42315
- Series year
- 1920
- Actually issued
- 1920
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- XF (IBNS)
Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
- Estimated value
- $5.5 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-17.
- Dimensions
- 90.6 × 61.2 mm (±0.5, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldPosenQueen LouiseSavings bankWeimar Republic
The type
- Type
- 1,50 Mark, Staedtische Sparkasse Schneidemuehl, 1920
- Printer
- Flemming-Wiskott A.G., Glogau
- Rarity
- scarce
Inscriptions
Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber eine Mark und fuenfzig Pfennig.
Pay against this cheque, from my account, one mark fifty pfennig to the bearer.
Symbology
- Queen Louise's lodging
- The house where the fleeing queen stayed in 1806, a Prussian memory kept alive on a border town's money.
- A cheque, not a voucher
- The note is drafted as a cheque drawn on the municipal savings bank - a form some towns preferred to the plain Gutschein.
What was happening
By 1920 German Notgeld had stopped being a response to a coin shortage and become a collector's product. Towns, districts and firms commissioned decorative Serienscheine - lithographed sets printed far beyond any local need and sold to collectors, illustrated with whatever the place was proud of: a legend, a famous son, a battle, a trade, a joke in dialect. The result is the most inventive body of graphic design in the history of paper money, made in the years when Germany's currency was dying.
Schneidemuehl (today Pila) was the chief town of the Grenzmark, the strip of Posen-West Prussia left to Germany when most of the province passed to Poland in 1920. This note, drawn as a cheque on the municipal savings bank for one mark and fifty pfennig, remembers the night in 1806 when, after the catastrophe of Jena and Auerstedt, Queen Louise of Prussia fled east through the town; the reverse shows the house Wohnung der Koenigin Luise waehrend ihrer Flucht - the lodging of Queen Louise during her flight. The leaping stag in the arms is the town's own.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 1,50 Mark, Staedtische Sparkasse Schneidemuehl, 1920 in the collection.
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