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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse des Kreises Fallingbostel, Sparkasse zu Fallingbostel, and Spar- und Darlehnsverein e.G.m.b.H., Walsrode |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gegen diesen Schein zahlen die unterzeichneten Sparkassen 25 PFENNIG an den Überbringer. WALSRODE UND FALLINGBOSTEL, 1. Oktober 1919. SPARKASSE DES KREISES FALLINGBOSTEL SPARKASSE ZU FALLINGBOSTEL SPAR- UND DARLEHNSVEREIN E.G.M.B.H., WALSRODE Scheine bei denen die Nummer ganz oder teilweise fehlt, werden nicht eingelöst. J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely occupied by a finely engraved landscape vignette in brown on cream paper, enclosed within a delicate looped guilloche border with rosette cornerpieces. The scene portrays a rural Lüneburg Heath panorama viewed from an elevated vantage point, with a winding country path and river receding toward a treeline on the horizon; tall columnar conifers frame the foreground left and right, and a farmstead with a white-gabled roof is visible to the upper left. No text or denomination appears on this side. |
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Three separate savings institutions in the Fallingbostel-Walsrode area jointly issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War — a shortage so severe that thousands of German municipalities, cooperatives, and local banks produced their own emergency fractional currency between 1918 and 1921. The involvement of a cooperative credit society (Spar- und Darlehnsverein e.G.m.b.H.) alongside two distinct Sparkassen on a single Notgeld issue is unusual and points to a coordinated local response rather than three independent emissions.
J. C. König & Ebhardt, the Hanover printer responsible for this note, was a commercial firm that handled significant volume of regional Notgeld contracts during this period.