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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Wunstorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries a salmon-pink letterpress panel with the bold Gothic inscription 'Sparkasse der Stadt Wunstorf.' in black. Below, the denomination '25' appears within a central circular vignette framed by ornate scrollwork, flanked on either side by the word 'NOTGELD' in capitals, with 'PFENNIG' lettered beneath the vignette. The lower half bears the payment obligation text in German, the issue date 'Wunstorf, den 15. November 1920,' a hand-stamped blue vignette of the city gate, a red serial number prefixed 'Nr.', and three manuscript signatures to the right. |
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| Reverse description | The left two-thirds of the reverse carry a multicolour lithographic vignette of a Romanesque church with a square tower set amid trees, rendered in green, brown, and blue tones. A heraldic shield bearing the numeral '25' in black is positioned at lower left within a decorative geometric border band. To the right, a scroll cartouche contains an excerpt in Latin from the 871 charter of Ludwig the German, with a cross and the closing formula 'Signum domini Hludouuici regis serenissimi.' The printer's imprint 'Müller & Mahnkopp, Hildesheim' appears in small type at lower left. |
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Wunstorf is a small town in the Hannover region, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities in 1920 as federal small change remained chronically scarce following the war. The Sparkasse — a savings institution, not a central bank — had no formal mandate to issue currency, but hundreds of similar institutions did exactly that during this period, and the Reichsbank raised no serious objection as long as notes remained local.
Müller & Mahnkopp in Hildesheim were a regional printer serving numerous Notgeld issuers across Lower Saxony. The DeNG reference suffix variants (1a through 3/4) suggest at least minor plate or paper differences across the print run.