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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt-Sparkasse Canth (City Savings Bank of Canth, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT·SPAR·KASSE Zwei Monate zahlt gegen diesen Scheck an den Inhaber nach Ablauf ungültig: Der Magistrat. Toppe STADT CANTH 50 |
| Reverse description | Dark-toned note enclosed by a dense foliate scroll border, centred on an arched vignette of a World War I memorial monument set within a landscaped cemetery, rendered in fine letterpress line work with trees framing the composition and open sky above. Tablet panels flanking the monument carry the dates '1914' and '1918', while a cartouche below the vignette bears a commemorative inscription in Gothic script. The denomination numeral '50' is repeated in each corner. |
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Canth — now Kąty Wrocławskie in southwestern Poland — was a small Lower Silesian market town, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in 1920 Germany, its savings bank issued its own emergency currency when the national coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. This was Notgeld in its most mundane, administrative form: a local institution filling a gap that Berlin could not.
The Grabowski reference suffix "9/9" indicates this is the final plate position in a nine-note sheet, a detail that occasionally shows as slightly heavier ink coverage at the margins due to edge pressure during printing.