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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Gransee |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | The note is divided into three vertical panels printed in black and orange on grey paper. The left panel contains a vignette of a medieval cobblestone street scene with a tall round brick tower, rendered in a woodcut-style illustration signed 'WHL'; a cartouche at the base reads 'Konto F'. The central panel carries the issuer text in Gothic blackletter script with the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennige' in large orange letters and the place name 'Gransee i.d. Mark' below. The right panel presents a vignette of a Gothic city gate with an arched passage, accompanied by a serial number cartouche at the base; the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A-G-GLOGAU' appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large central vignette in woodcut style, printed in black and orange, illustrating a street scene in which a cart has lost a wheel near the town tower, with a watchman descending a ladder to assist bystanders amid scattered barrels; the artist's signature 'W.H.Lippert' appears within the vignette. Below the scene, a four-line verse in Gothic blackletter script occupies a text panel. The denomination numeral '50' in orange is set within a shield vignette at the upper left, a stylised bee motif in a Gothic arch cartouche appears at the lower right, and the design registration number 'D.R.G.M. 795679' is printed at the foot. |
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Gransee is a small Brandenburg town best known, if at all, as the site where Queen Louise of Prussia died in 1810. Whether that association influenced the choice of designer or imagery for this note is unrecorded, but the commission went to W. H. Lippert, printed by the Carl Flemming & Trowitzsch-Wiskott partnership in Glogau — a firm that handled an enormous volume of German notgeld work during the 1921 inflationary surge.
The Stadtsparkasse issues from this period were municipal savings bank obligations, not Reichsbank instruments. Gransee's population at the time was under three thousand.