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25 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt-Sparkasse Canth (City Savings Bank of Canth) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT·SPAR·KASSE 25 Zwei Monate zahlt gegen diesen Scheck an den Inhaber nach Aufruf ungültig: Der Magistrat STADT CANTH |
| Reverse description | Tan paper reverse printed in black with a rope-twist outer border and floral corner ornaments. A central portrait vignette set within a rectangular frame with leafy garland decoration presents a bust-length likeness of Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt, in a loose cravat and period dress. A patriotic verse in Gothic script is distributed in two columns flanking the portrait, with the denomination numeral "25" in the upper left and right corners; the caption "Fürst Blücher v. Wahlstatt" runs in bold Gothic lettering along the lower margin. |
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Canth was a small Silesian town — today Kąty Wrocławskie in Poland — and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917–1922, its savings bank issued Notgeld to fill the void left by hoarded coins. The Stadt-Sparkasse series from Canth is a minor regional issue, unremarkable in scope but historically precise: these notes circulated as genuine small-change substitutes, not as the later collector-targeted Serienscheine that flooded the market after 1920.
The DeNG 1#220.6 reference places this within the first major catalogued corpus of German emergency money, and the subdivision numbering suggests at least six distinct varieties within this denomination alone — worth noting when attributing individual examples.