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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenwalde (Spree) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Wer weiß, ob wir uns wiedersehn Am grünen Strand der Spree Gutschein der Stadt Fürstenwalde Spree 20 Pfg. Diesen Gutschein wird an allen Städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen Er verliert seine Gültigkeit drei Monate nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung. Der Magistrat Druck J.A. Schwarz, Lindenberg i/Allgäu |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a silhouette vignette in the Jugendstil manner, set against a deep navy ground, showing two medieval figures exchanging a charter scroll, with a stylised town skyline in the background and the date '1285' denoting the town's foundation year. Vertical side borders in grey bear the denomination 'Zwanzig Pfennig' in bold red Gothic lettering, flanked by coloured autumn oak-leaf motifs. A caption in Gothic script runs along the lower margin below the main scene. |
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Fürstenwalde an der Spree was a mid-sized Brandenburg town with enough industrial activity — notably its cable factory and rubber works — to sustain a meaningful local economy, which is part of why it issued Notgeld at all rather than relying solely on municipal scrip from larger neighboring centers. The printer, J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, was one of several small Bavarian printing houses that found steady business in the Notgeld boom of 1920–1922, producing small-denomination emergency paper for municipalities hundreds of kilometers away.
By 1921 the acute coin shortage that originally drove Notgeld issuance was easing, but municipal pride and collector demand had taken over — a commercially cynical but historically well-documented shift.