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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Die Städtische Sparkasse Schneidemühl |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE STÄDTISCHE SPARKASSE SCHNEIDEMÜHL 25 PF. ZAHLE GEGEN DIESEN SCHECK AUS MEINEM GUTHABEN AN DEN INHABER FÜNF UND ZWANZIG PFENNIG. Konto J SCHNEIDEMÜHL FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G. GLOGAU. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely engraved oval vignette of the Marktplatz in Schneidemühl, with the tall spire of the Evangelical church rising above tree-lined surroundings and adjacent civic buildings rendered in detailed letterpress linework. The oval scene is set against a dark decorative background with a stylised floral and berry border along the top edge. Below the vignette, a pale rectangular panel carries the town name and scene identification text flanked by matching red denomination cartouches at each corner. |
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Schneidemühl — today Piła, in northwestern Poland — was a Prussian railway town, and its municipal savings bank (Sparkasse) issued this small-denomination emergency note as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities during the First World War, when coin metal was commandeered for the war effort and small change simply vanished from everyday commerce. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott in Glogau were one of the more prolific regional printers of such issues, handling contracts for numerous Silesian and Pomeranian municipalities.
Glogau is now Głogów, Poland — the printer's location shifted political identity twice in the twentieth century without moving an inch.