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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Kreisstadt Wohlau |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher issued by the Sparkasse der Kreisstadt Wohlau, bearing the denomination 25 Pfennig in text and the date 1 April 1921. The text identifies the issuing authority as Der Verwaltungsrat (the board of directors), with all inscriptions in Gothic script typical of early Weimar-era emergency currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER SPARKASSE DER KREISSTADT WOHLAU / 25 PFENNIG / WOHLAU 1 APRIL 1921 / DER VERWALTUNGSRAT |
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Wohlau — now Wołów in Lower Silesia — was a small Prussian kreisstadt whose municipal savings bank issued this note during the Weimar-era notgeld wave of 1921, when chronic coin shortages forced thousands of local authorities to produce their own fractional currency. Appelhans Verlag in Braunschweig was a prolific printer of provincial notgeld, supplying municipalities across northern and central Germany with competent if unspectacular small-denomination pieces.
The Sparkasse series from Wohlau attracted little collector attention at the time of issue and remains modest today — useful primarily as documentary evidence of how deeply the postwar coinage shortage penetrated even minor administrative centers.