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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Steinheim (Westf.), Stadtsparkasse |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Orange-ground reverse with a decorative border enclosing two ornamental quatrefoil cartouches flanking a central white star motif inscribed '19 21' and '50 Pfennige' in Gothic script. The left cartouche contains a polychrome still-life vignette of local Westphalian products — a bottle of Steinhäger gin, a ham joint, radishes, grapes, and a small glass — while the right cartouche presents a rural scene with a half-timbered Westphalian farmhouse amid trees and a flock of sheep. A decorative frieze along the upper border carries silhouetted figures of animals, herders, and exotic beasts, and the lower border bears a stylised railway scene with the place-names 'BERLIN' at left and 'KÖLN' at right. |
| Reverse lettering | 19 21 50 Pfennige Steinhäger BERLIN KÖLN |
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Stadtsparkasse Steinheim issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1921, when coin metal was being hoarded faster than the Reichsbank could replace it. Thousands of municipalities and savings institutions printed their own Kleingeldersatz under emergency provisions — Steinheim's issue is one of the more obscure Westphalian entries in that flood of local paper.
Selmar Bayer operated out of Berlin SO 36, a postal district that housed a dense cluster of commercial printers who took on Notgeld work throughout the inflationary period. The SO 36 address alone flags this as a small trade printer rather than a security press.