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30 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Insterburg |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | The upper register carries the issuer's title in Gothic blackletter script flanked by corner vignettes bearing the numeral '30' over 'Pfennig' in blue guilloche panels. The central text panel states the cheque-style payment order in Fraktur script, with 'Dreißig Pfennig' rendered in a larger display face. The lower half presents a striking silhouette vignette of the Insterburg city skyline — church towers and civic buildings rendered in solid black against a yellow-ruled sky — with account prefix 'Konto O' and a six-digit serial number in white boxes at bottom left and right respectively; the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.-G. GLOGAU' appears below the outer frame. |
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| Reverse description | The full-face vignette presents a polychrome view of the Insterburg castle courtyard (Burghof) framed by a massive stone arch rendered in detailed cross-hatched engraving. At centre, the Peinturm (torture tower) of 1336 rises above surrounding medieval buildings; the foreground shows a cobbled courtyard with a low retaining wall. The Teutonic Order shield (black cross on white) appears at lower left and the Prussian eagle coat of arms at lower right, flanking the caption panel. Denomination numerals '30' occupy the upper corner boxes, and the design registration mark 'D.R.G.M. 795679' is printed below the outer border. |
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Insterburg — now Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast — was a Prussian administrative and garrison town whose municipal savings bank issued small-denomination emergency money during the notgeld period, when coin shortages forced local institutions across Germany to produce their own fractional currency. The Städtische Sparkasse had the practical authority and the public trust to do so; most holders would have known exactly where to redeem it.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau handled enormous volumes of notgeld commissions from municipalities throughout East Prussia and Silesia. Their output was competent and fast — which was the point.