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| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Aschersleben |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtsparkasse Aschersleben zahle dem Überbringer dieser Platzanweisung Aschersleben, den 1.Dezember 1921 Der Magistrat 083637 Gültig bis 1.März 1922 -KRELLE- 50 Pfg. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gleich nach der Blüte mußt du spritzen willst du dein Obst vor Maden schützen Damit das Spritzen wirksam sei Spritz´in zwei Wochen dann aufs neu |
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Aschersleben's municipal savings bank issued this Notgeld note during the acute small-change shortage of 1921, a period when German municipalities, utilities, and private firms were producing emergency paper in enormous quantities to substitute for hoarded and melted coinage. The Stadtsparkasse series is modest in scope — the DeNG reference distinguishes only two plate varieties at this denomination, suggesting a limited and controlled print run rather than the chaotic multi-issue runs seen in larger cities.
Krelle as designer is known from several Saxony-Anhalt municipal issues of this period; attribution is consistent but little biographical detail survives in the literature.