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5 Pfennig Stadt-Sparkasse
| Issuer | Stadt-Sparkasse Treffurt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Selmar Bayer, Berlin, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint on white paper, enclosed within an ornate foliate border. The denomination numeral '5' appears in two black oval cartouches at the upper left and right corners, each inscribed 'Pfg.'; the centre carries the Fraktur heading 'Gutschein über Fünf Pfennig' with the issuing date 'Treffurt, den 15. Juni 1920' and the issuer name 'Stadt-Sparkasse'. The crowned municipal arms of Treffurt are positioned at the lower left, with a circular Stadt-Sparkasse seal at the lower right, and a manuscript signature appears between them above a printed serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-grey guilloche underprint carries a panoramic vignette of two local landmarks: the ruined castle of Normannstein to the left and the rocky outcrop of Heldrastein to the right, both labelled with their respective names at the upper margin. The crowned municipal arms of Treffurt are centred in the lower half of the design, flanked symmetrically by the denomination numerals '5 Pfg.' on each side. The issuer name 'Stadt-Sparkasse Treffurt' is inscribed in bold lettering along the lower portion. |
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Treffurt is a small Thuringian town on the Werra River, and its Stadt-Sparkasse was among hundreds of German municipal savings institutions that resorted to printing their own Kleingeldersatz during the acute small-change shortage of 1920. The federal government's inability to produce sufficient low-denomination coinage fast enough for everyday commerce pushed this responsibility down to the most local level imaginable — a savings bank in a town of a few thousand people.
Selmar Bayer of Berlin handled enormous volumes of this emergency notgeld work, printing for municipalities across the Reich. Uniformity of production quality, not artistic distinction, was the priority.