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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Uelzen |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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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. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein 25 Pfennige Sparkasse der Stadt Uelzen |
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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.