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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Canth |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in brown on buff paper with a repeating geometric border of dashes and circles enclosing the full design. Symmetrical Art Nouveau floral sprays flank a central rectangular vignette containing a line-engraved view of the Canth town hall (Rathaus), rendered with fine architectural detail including a prominent clock tower against a clouded sky. Denomination numerals '50' appear in boxed cartouches at the upper left and right, with the inscription 'RATHAUS' below the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 RATHAUS |
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Canth — now Kąty Wrocławskie in Lower Silesia — was a small Silesian market town, and its Stadtsparkasse was among the thousands of German municipal savings institutions that resorted to printing their own Notgeld during the acute small-change crisis of 1917–1921. The federal government's wartime metal requisitions had stripped silver and copper coinage from everyday commerce, leaving towns to fend for themselves.
Municipal Notgeld of this scale was typically printed locally or through regional jobbing printers, and authorization was informal at best. Redemption obligations were real in theory; in practice, many issuers quietly let unclaimed notes lapse.