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25 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse des Mansfelder Seekreises |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green Notgeld printed in letterpress with a central vignette of two figures flanking a stone tablet bearing a rhyming moral inscription. The denomination "25" appears in circular cartouches at upper left and right, with the issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script across the centre. The date "Eisleben, den 14. Dezember 1920" and a manuscript signature appear at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green reverse centred on a landscape vignette within an ornate cartouche, showing a lakeside scene inscribed "Kernersee". The heading "Mansfelder Seekreis" in Gothic script runs across the top, with denomination numerals "25" in large circular medallions at all four corners. Two columns of rhyming satirical verse in German blackletter flank the central vignette. |
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Mansfeld-Seekreis was a rural administrative district in the Prussian province of Saxony, centered on the old copper-mining region around Eisleben. That a local savings institution — not a town council or chamber of commerce — issued emergency currency here in 1920 is itself worth noting. Sparkassen occasionally stepped into the Notgeld gap when municipal authorities were slow or disorganized, and the Mansfelder Seekreis example is among the less commonly encountered institutional issuers from this period.
By 1920, the first wave of necessity-driven Notgeld was giving way to the collectible "Serienscheine" phenomenon. Which side of that line this issue falls on is worth examining before pricing.