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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Stolp |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in black letterpress on cream paper shows a historical scene of Blücher as prisoner before Colonel Belling, with a mounted officer on a white horse surrounded by Hussar soldiers before an architectural backdrop; the artist's signature 'W. H. Lippert' appears at lower left. Decorative purple side panels with ornamental scroll-work and crown motifs frame the composition on both sides, with the numeral '50' in an ornate cartouche at the right. A caption in Fraktur script at the base of the central panel reads 'Blücher als Gefangener vor Oberst Belling'. |
| Reverse lettering | Blücher als Gefangener vor Oberst Belling 50 |
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Stolp's municipal savings bank — Sparkasse der Stadt Stolp — was one of hundreds of German local institutions forced into emergency currency production during the Kleingeldnot of 1920–21, when a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage left ordinary commerce effectively paralyzed. Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were prolific printers of Notgeld throughout this period, producing issues for numerous Pomeranian towns simultaneously.
W. H. Lippert's credit as designer is relatively uncommon in Notgeld documentation — most provincial issues went unsigned. Stolp itself became the Polish city of Słupsk after 1945, making all Weimar-era civic ephemera from the town a footnote to a German presence that was abruptly and permanently ended.