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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt-Spar-Kasse Canth (Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Grube & Schneider, Freiburg, Schlesien |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in dark ink on cream paper within a decorative geometric border. A central circular vignette displays the colourfully lithographed civic coat of arms of Canth — a quartered shield in red and yellow surmounted by a crested helmet with red, blue and yellow mantling — flanked by Gothic script text blocks. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner, with the issuer legend 'STADT-SPAR-KASSE' in a ruled panel at the top and 'STADT CANTH' at the bottom; a serial number panel and the printer's imprint run along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in grey-blue tones on cream paper with a hatched outer border. A central engraved portrait vignette within a decorative cartouche frame, surmounted by laurel sprigs, presents a bust-length likeness of Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Flanking Gothic script panels carry a verse text, and the identification legend 'Fürst Blücher v. Wahlstatt' is set in large ornamental blackletter across the lower portion of the note. |
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Canth (now Kąty Wrocławskie) was a small Lower Silesian town whose municipal savings bank — the Stadt-Spar-Kasse — resorted to issuing Notgeld in 1920 as the postwar small-change shortage continued to cripple everyday retail transactions across Germany. The printer, Grube & Schneider, operated out of Freiburg in Schlesien, the town now known as Świebodzice, roughly 15 kilometers away — a local job placed with a local press, as was common for minor municipal issues of this type.
The DeNG reference subdivides this issue into multiple variants, suggesting at least minor differences in printing or serial characteristics across the run.