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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse zu Wilster |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a detailed letterpress engraving of the Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) of Wilster, built in 1585, rendered in a fine line-art style against a clouded sky. The municipal coat of arms of Wilster appears in framed panels at the upper left and upper right corners, flanking the header inscription. Denomination counters reading "25 PFG." occupy the lower-left and lower-right corners, with the issuing authority's name, place, and date of 13 Juli 1920 inscribed along the lower margin above three manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] Wassermühlen 25 PFG. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht Drei Monate nach erfolgter Aufforderung in der Wilsterschen Zeitung bei der Städt. Sparkasse zu Wilster eingelöst wird. THEODOR GRIES, HAMBURG 36 |
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Wilster is a small market town in Holstein, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — was among hundreds of local German institutions that resorted to printing their own emergency fractional currency during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These Kleingeldscheine filled a genuine transactional gap at a moment when the Reichsbank could not produce low-denomination coinage fast enough to meet everyday commerce.
Theodor Gries was a Hamburg commercial printer with no particular prestige in the field — workmanlike output, modest production runs, typical of the regional printers drawn into Notgeld work by volume demand rather than specialist expertise.