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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Dömitz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress notgeld on cream paper with a decorative guilloche border framing the entire note. Upper left bears the municipal arms of Dömitz — a crenellated tower on a shield — alongside the bold inscription STADT DÖMITZ / GUTSCHEIN / ÜBER in two type sizes. A central oval guilloche rosette carries the large numeral 25, flanked symmetrically by two rectangular panels reading PFENNIG. The lower portion gives the issuing authority, date of 1. Juni 1920, two manuscript signatures, and a full legal redemption clause in small Gothic type; the printer's imprint J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT DÖMITZ GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 25 PFENNIG Sparkasse der den 1. Juni 1920. Stadt Dömitz i/M. Dieser Gutschein wird an allen städtischen Kassen von Dömitz jederzeit in Zahlung genommen; er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats, nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung bei der Sparkasse Dömitz zur Einlösung gelangt. J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER |
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Dömitz is a small Elbe river town in Mecklenburg, and its savings bank — the Sparkasse der Stadt Dömitz — was among hundreds of municipal institutions that issued Kleingeldersatz during the acute coin shortage of 1920. The Reichsbank's metal coinage had essentially vanished from circulation, absorbed by wartime requisitions and postwar hoarding, forcing local authorities at every level to paper over the gap with emergency Notgeld.
J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover handled an enormous volume of this municipal small-denomination work. Their output was competent and consistent, which is precisely why so much of it survives — printed in quantity, often on decent stock, and widely collected even at the time of issue rather than spent.