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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Wohlau |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned note with a decorative guilloche underprint and a dashed outer border. The upper portion carries the issuer's title in Gothic blackletter script above the denomination numeral '50' flanked on either side, with '* Fünfzig Pfennig *' in large display type across the centre. Below, a rectangular vignette presents a panoramic engraved view of the town of Wohlau with church steeples and rooflines visible across the skyline. The date 'Wohlau, den 17. August 1920' and the authorising body 'Der Verwaltungsrat' appear in the lower margin alongside a handwritten signature, with the printer's imprint 'SELMAR BAYER, BERLIN SO 36' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Vorstehenden Betrag zahlt unsere Kasse dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines Gültigkeit bis einen Monat nach erfolgtem Widerruf durch ortsübliche Bekanntmachung |
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Wohlau — now Wołów in Lower Silesia — was a small Prussian town that, like hundreds of similar municipalities in 1920, issued its own emergency small-change notes when the postwar coinage shortage left everyday retail transactions nearly impossible. These Notgeld issues were technically liabilities of the local savings institution rather than the municipality itself, a bureaucratic distinction that mattered for redemption claims but was invisible to anyone buying bread with one.
Selmar Bayer operated out of the SO 36 postal district of Berlin — the Kreuzberg area — and handled a substantial volume of provincial Notgeld printing during this period, most of it in short runs for issuers who never expected their paper to travel far.