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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Uelzen |
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| Size | 47 × 32 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein No. Sparkasse der Stadt Uelzen 25 Pfennige Dieser Gutschein tritt spätestens mit dem 1. Juli 1922 außer Kraft. |
| Reverse description | Orange and dark blue reverse in portrait format, with a rope-pattern border framing the entire face. To the upper right, the denomination '25 Pfennige' is set in a dark blue panel beneath the header 'Gutschein' in Gothic lettering. The left half of the central field is occupied by a large vignette of a great horned owl perched on a branch, rendered in a bold woodcut style, while to its right a line-engraved townscape shows a church steeple and civic buildings against an orange underprint ground. The issuer's name is lettered in large Gothic script across the lower margin. |
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Uelzen's municipal savings bank — the Sparkasse der Stadt Uelzen — issued this tiny Pfennig note as Notgeld during the small-change shortages that plagued German commerce from around 1916 onward. The chronic disappearance of coin from circulation, driven by hoarding and metal requisitions for the war effort, forced hundreds of municipal and commercial issuers to print their own fractional paper substitutes.
At under five centimeters wide, this note was among the smallest paper instruments in routine German use. The Uelzen series attracted little collector attention compared to the elaborate pictorial Notgeld produced after 1920, which keeps genuine circulated examples undervalued relative to their scarcity.