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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Spar- und Leihekasse Blomberg (Lippe) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Blomberg (Lippe) Ungültig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung. Fünfzig Pfennig Der Vorstand der Städtischen Spar- und Leihekasse. Bürgermeister Kurator Rendant No |
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| Reverse lettering | Burgtor und Weinbergtor 50 |
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Blomberg's municipal savings and loan bank — the Städtische Spar- und Leihekasse — was one of hundreds of small German local institutions forced into emergency currency issuance during the Kleingeldnot, the small-change shortage that paralyzed retail trade across Germany from 1916 onward. These Notgeld issues were a practical fix, not a monetary statement. Gustav Heynke's Detmold press, operating under the Kanne und Kühne imprint, handled a number of Lippe-district Notgeld commissions, which gives this note a regional printing coherence unusual among the more scattered wartime issues.