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20 Mark
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Königsberg in Franken |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 20 Mark |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central colour vignette of a panoramic townscape view of Königsberg in Franken, rendered in a naturalistic style with rolling wooded hills in the background, the town's church tower and half-timbered buildings in the middle ground, and a river or pond in the foreground. The vignette is framed by a decorative border with the denomination numeral '20' repeated in each corner within solid black blocks. Above the vignette runs the heading 'Notgeld der Städt. Sparkasse Königsberg i. Fr.' in Fraktur script, and below it the inscription 'Zwanzig Mark'; aphoristic verses in vertical orientation appear in the left and right lateral panels, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Städt. Sparkasse Königsberg i. Fr. Zwanzig Mark Nach starkem Wetterschlag * * scheint doppelt hell die Sonne. Auch ich will helfen mit, daß diese Zeit bald komme. BLASIUS' & LAUER'S NACHF. SCHWEINFURT |
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Königsberg in Franken — not to be confused with the East Prussian city of the same name — issued this municipal savings bank note in 1918 as the Imperial German economy buckled under wartime strain. The proliferation of local Notgeld that year was driven by a genuine coin shortage: small-denomination metal had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and municipal and commercial bodies were left to fill the gap themselves.
Blasius' & Lauer's Nachf. in Schweinfurt handled a large volume of Franconian Notgeld commissions during this period, which gives the series a certain typographic consistency shared with neighboring towns' issues.