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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Bodenwerder |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 73 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange guilloche underprint covers the entire face, enclosed within a dotted outer border and a bold rectangular frame. The denomination numeral '25' appears in oval cartouches at upper left and upper right, flanking the large Gothic-script heading 'Gutschein'; below, the issuing authority 'Sparkasse der Stadt Bodenwerder' is set in bold letterpress, with the value spelled out in a framed Gothic banner reading 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige'. At the foot of the note, a circular vignette presents a castle or town hall building, flanked by two manuscript signatures and the issue date 'Bodenwerder, den 1. Mai 1919', with the printer's imprint 'Druck Selmar Bayer Berlin' along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gegen diesen Gutschein zahlt die Sparkasse der Stadt Bodenwerder Fünfundzwanzig Pfennige dem Ueberbringer. Ungültig 12 Monate nach Friedensschluß. Bodenwerder den 1. Mai 1919 |
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Bodenwerder's savings bank issued this note as Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed Germany's defeat in World War I — small-denomination metal coinage had been hoarded or melted, and municipal and savings institutions across Germany stepped in to fill the gap with locally printed paper. Thousands of towns did exactly this between 1917 and 1922, making Selmar Bayer one of several Berlin-based commercial printers who built a steady business supplying these emergency issues to minor issuers who lacked any printing capacity of their own.
Bodenwerder is best known as the birthplace of Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen, the 18th-century nobleman whose name became synonymous with tall tales.