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| Issuer | Kreissparkasse zu Diepholz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Gebrüder Jänecke, Hannover, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 25 Pfennig für den Kreis Diepholz Einlösung erfolgt jederzeit durch die unterzeichnete Kasse bis 3 Monate nach erfolgtem Aufrufe in der „Diepholzer Kreiszeitung” Diepholz, d. 1. Sept. 1920. Kreissparkasse zu Diepholz. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kreis Diepholz |
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Kreissparkasse zu Diepholz was a district savings institution in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of similar municipal bodies it turned to emergency scrip in 1920 when the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination Reichsmark coinage effectively unavailable. This is Notgeld in its purest administrative form — a stopgap authorized locally because the central monetary system had failed at the retail level.
Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover were prolific Notgeld printers during this period, handling runs for numerous Niedersachsen municipalities. Three signatories is slightly unusual for a note of this denomination and issuer type — most comparable pieces carried two.