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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Girokasse Saupersdorf |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Platzanweisung der Girokasse Saupersdorf über Fünfundzwanzig Pfg. Girokasse Saupersdorf, 5. März 1921. Einlösung erfolgt jederzeit. |
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| Reverse lettering | Nr |
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Saupersdorf is a small village in the Vogtland district of Saxony, and its appearance on notgeld is entirely typical of the 1921 municipal small-change crisis, when even the most minor German parishes issued their own fractional emergency currency to compensate for a severe shortage of coins. The Girokasse — a local giro savings institution rather than a proper bank — had just enough standing to issue and guarantee small notes of this kind.
At 48 × 34 mm, this is among the smaller notgeld formats produced during the period, which makes the guilloche underprint a slightly surprising security investment for what was essentially village scrip.