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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Potsdam |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Büllert |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
| Protection description | Embossed official municipal seal applied to the obverse. |
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Stadtsparkasse Potsdam issued a substantial volume of Notgeld across 1921 as the Reichsbank's coin shortages — chronic since the war — showed no sign of resolving. Municipal savings banks were among the more administratively cautious issuers of emergency small-change notes; the embossed seal here served both as an authentication device and a visible assertion of institutional standing, distinguishing the issue from the purely decorative Serienscheine flooding the collector market at the same time.
Büllert was a Brandenburg-regional printer with a competent if unspectacular output. Nothing exotic about the production, but the embossing adds a tactile legitimacy most contemporary Notgeld lacks.