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5 Pfennig Spar- und Leihkasse
| Issuer | Spar- und Leihkasse der Stadt Aurich |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 80.5 × 50.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-grey on plain paper, the note carries a guilloche-patterned border and underprint throughout. The denomination numeral "5" appears in ornate outlined cartouches at both left and right, with the title "Fünf Pfennig" in bold blackletter script across the top centre. A lightly printed civic coat-of-arms vignette occupies the centre field, surrounded by the redemption text in Gothic script, the place and date "Aurich, den 1. September 1918.", and the issuing authority "Spar- und Leihkasse der Stadt Aurich" in large blackletter type, with two manuscript signatures below. The printer's imprint "Seimar Bayer, Berlin GD. 36" appears in Roman type along the lower left margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 Fünf Pfennig 5 zahlen wir dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines ohne Legitimations Prüfung. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats anch erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung der Kasse durch die Ostfriesischen Nachrichten in Aurich bei uns zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. Aurich, den 1. September 1918. Spar. und Leibfasse der Stadt Aurich Geimar Baher, Berlin GD. 36 |
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Aurich, the administrative seat of East Frisia, issued this Notgeld during the acute coin shortage of 1918, when brass and nickel had long since been diverted to war production and even the smallest denominations vanished from daily commerce. Municipal savings institutions like the Spar- und Leihkasse stepped in where the Reichsbank could not — or would not — act quickly enough for small transactions at the local level.
The watermark is notable for a note of this size and denomination; most German municipal emergency issues of 1918 dispensed with security features entirely. Its presence here suggests Seimar Bayer was working from a more cautious brief than was typical of wartime Notgeld contracts.