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25 Pfennig Kreissparkasse Wittingen
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Wittingen |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and red on cream paper, with the large numeral '25' in bold at both upper corners. A central vignette consists of a stylised decorative motif combining a spinning wheel with intertwined wheat and floral sprays in a folk-art Jugendstil manner. Flanking text panels in gothic blackletter script carry the issuer inscription 'KREISSPARKASSE ZU WITTINGEN' across the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and dark brown on cream paper, with a banner at the top bearing the word 'Gutschein' in gothic script. Below the banner, a circular town-arms vignette shows a fortified gate with a rampant lion, surrounded by a serial number. The denomination '25 Pfennig' appears in bold gothic lettering at centre, flanked by the numerals '25' on each side, with the validity inscription 'GÜLTIG BIS 1. JULI 1922' along the lower margin. |
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Wittingen is a small district town in Lower Saxony, and its Kreissparkasse — a county-level savings institution — issued notgeld like hundreds of other local bodies during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1921–1923. The Reichsbank's inability to print small-denomination coinage fast enough to keep pace with collapsing purchasing power forced municipalities and savings banks down to the Pfennig level, which is itself a telling detail about how far the crisis had penetrated daily commerce by 1922.
These Kreissparkasse issues rarely had wide distribution beyond their own administrative district.