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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Spar- und Leihekasse Blomberg (Lippe) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld issue with an elaborate Art Nouveau-style foliate and interlaced border in greens, blues, and reds framing the entire note. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Blomberg — a white fortified gatehouse with three towers over a red rose on a blue field — is set within a geometric brown and gold vignette flanked by the denomination numeral '50' in orange on yellow cartouches at left and right. The lower panel carries three manuscript signatures above the printed titles Bürgermeister, Kurator, and Rendant, alongside a serial number, with the issuing authority line 'Der Vorstand der Städtischen Spar- und Leihekasse' printed above. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a full-colour lithographic vignette of the Burgtor und Weinbergtor, two historic medieval stone gateways in Blomberg, rendered in a painterly style with warm autumnal foliage of an oak tree rising behind the walls and a red-roofed structure to the left. The denomination numeral '50' appears in black on gold corner squares at all four corners, and the same ornate foliate border as the obverse frames the composition. Stylised bird and figure motifs in purple cartouches flank the central vignette at left and right. |
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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.