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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Ziesar |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Städtische Sparkasse Ziesar zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Authaben an der Inhaber Fünfzig Pfennig Ziesar (Bez. Mgb.) Konto C Flemming u. Wiskott A.G. Glogau. |
| Reverse description | Printed in red, dark green, and black on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a wide panoramic vignette after a 1710 drawing by Petzold, presenting a historic townscape of Ziesar with church spires, the castle complex, town walls, and a horse-drawn wagon in the foreground. Vertical side panels flanking the central scene carry stylised oak and laurel branches above small repetitions of the municipal key-cross shield. Denomination numerals '50' appear in the upper corners within red cartouches, and a caption below the vignette credits the source illustration. |
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Ziesar is a small town in Brandenburg, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — was among the thousands of local German institutions that issued Kleingeldscheine during the acute small-change shortage of the early Weimar period. Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were prolific printers of Notgeld and handled enormous volumes of these municipal issues, which is partly why their output is so difficult to date precisely from printing evidence alone.
Quality control across Flemming & Wiskott's Notgeld runs was inconsistent; ink saturation and registration vary noticeably between sheets even within the same print order.