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25 Pfennig Kreissparkasse
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Steinau |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Kreissparkasse Steinau III. Ausgabe. 25 Pfg. Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig Der Verwaltungsrat: Geographisches Institut Paul Baron Liegnitz. |
| Reverse description | Printed in two shades of green on cream paper, the reverse centres on a large oval line-art vignette of the Kreis-Sparkasse building in Steinau — a multi-storey late-historicist structure with a stepped gable, corner turret, arched ground-floor windows, and a wrought-iron fence in the foreground, set among flanking buildings and trees. The numeral '25' is placed in the upper corners outside the oval frame. A two-line redemption clause in Gothic script below the vignette states the conditions for encashment. |
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Steinau an der Oder — now Ścinawa in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian district center whose Kreissparkasse issued this Notgeld note during the post-WWI currency emergency that flooded Germany with locally produced emergency coinage and scrip. The Geographisches Institut Paul Baron in Liegnitz handled a considerable volume of Silesian Notgeld work during this period, and their output for minor district savings banks like Steinau was strictly functional.
Liegnitz itself is now Legnica, also in Poland — a reminder of how thoroughly the political geography of Silesia was redrawn after 1945.