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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt-Spar-Kasse Canth (City Savings Bank of Canth) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 92.5 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned notgeld note with a bold decorative border of geometric and foliate motifs enclosing the central design. A circular vignette at centre displays the polychrome municipal arms of Canth, rendered in red, blue, and yellow with a crested helm above, flanked by manuscript-style text panels stating the redemption conditions and the serial number box below. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals at all four corners, with 'STADT-SPAR-KASSE' in a ruled panel at the top and 'STADT CANTH' in bold letters at the base, above the printer's imprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | PFENNIGE STADT-SPAR-KASSE 50 Zwei Monate zahlt gegen diesen Zeteck an den Inhaber Der Magistrat. Poppe nach Aufruf ungültig: No 069617 STADT CANTH PFENNIGE GRUBE & SCHNEIDER, FREIBURG, SCHLES. |
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Canth was a small Silesian textile town — today Kąty Wrocławskie in Poland — and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, its savings bank resorted to issuing Notgeld to plug the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage that had plagued Germany since the war years. Grube & Schneider handled the printing locally in Freiburg in Schlesien, keeping the contract regional, as was typical for these municipal emergency issues.
The DeNG reference suffix range .2-5/8 indicates this is one of several distinct typographic or color variants catalogued within the same base issue — worth distinguishing when building a complete run of the Canth series.