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50 Mark Stadtsparkasse with signatures
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bielefeld |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | E. Gundlach A. G., Bielefeld, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the denomination and issuing authority text in letterpress, with the heading STADTRAT: followed by a row of manuscript signatures from municipal officials. The printer's imprint and legal protection notice are arranged along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a composite arrangement of industrial vignettes representing notable Bielefeld commercial enterprises: two vignettes for Dürkopp-Werke A.-G., one for Velhagen u. Klasings-Verlagsbuchhandlung, and one for L. Lepper, collectively illustrating the industrial and commercial identity of the issuing municipality. |
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Bielefeld's silk and linen notgeld issues of 1922 occupy a peculiar niche in emergency currency history — produced from locally sourced fabric because paper was either unavailable or considered too fragile for sustained circulation during the hyperinflationary spiral. The Stadtsparkasse series was among the more formally administered of these issues, with hand-applied signatures giving individual notes at least a nominal claim to official accountability. E. Gundlach, a Bielefeld printing house, handled production locally, which kept the logistics manageable when central supply chains were unreliable.
Silk examples survive in higher numbers than their linen counterparts from the same series, largely because silk resisted the mechanical wear of pocket and till use far better than paper ever could.