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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Bodenwerder |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown and cream Notgeld note with a guilloche underprint across the entire field, enclosed within a decorative double-rule border; the denomination numeral '50' appears in oval cartouches at upper left and upper right. The central text, set in Gothic letterpress script, reads the payment obligation of the Sparkasse der Stadt Bodenwerder for fifty Pfennige to the bearer, with the issue date 'Bodenwerder, den 1. Mai 1919' and the invalidity clause 'Ungültig 12 Monate nach Friedensschluß' printed below. A circular vignette at centre-bottom presents a view of the Bodenwerder townscape with a church tower, flanked by two manuscript signatures, with the printer's imprint 'Druck SELMAR BAYER BERLIN S.O 36' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream paper reverse with no typeset or engraved design; faint show-through of the obverse letterpress impression is visible, consistent with single-sided printing as standard for German Notgeld emergency issues of this period. |
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Bodenwerder is a small town on the Weser in Lower Saxony, best known as the birthplace of Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen — the Baron Münchhausen of literary fame. This 50 Pfennig Notgeld was issued by the local savings bank in 1919, part of the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after the First World War as small change became almost impossible to obtain through normal channels.
Selmar Bayer of Berlin handled production for numerous Notgeld issuers during this period, operating as one of the smaller commercial printers that competed for municipal contracts when the big security printers were overwhelmed.