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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Wattenscheid |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | No. 751 50 Pfg. Die Sparkasse der Stadt Wattenscheid zahlt gegen diesen Gutschein, sobald ihr Silber-Vorrat es gestattet, oder ihr zusammen für mindestens 20 Mark Gutscheine vorgezeigt werden, Fünfzig Pfg. Sämtliche Beträge, auch unter 20 Mark, werden auf Wunsch als Spareinlage gutgeschrieben. Wattenscheid, den 10. August 1914. Sparkasse der Stadt Wattenscheid Dieser Gutschein muss zur Gültigkeit Siegel und 2 Unterschriften tragen und bis spätestens 31. Dezember 1914 eingelöst sein. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet handstamp of the Sparkasse der Stadt Wattenscheid with a standing figural device at centre, applied to the obverse to validate the note together with two manuscript signatures as required by the printed validity clause. |
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Wattenscheid's municipal savings bank — the Sparkasse der Stadt Wattenscheid — issued this note in 1914 as part of the emergency small-change flood that swept German municipalities in the weeks following the outbreak of war. The hoarding of metal coins was immediate and severe; by late July and August 1914, silver and copper had effectively vanished from everyday commerce across the Reich. Local authorities, savings banks, and even private firms scrambled to fill the gap before the Reichsbank could respond with official Darlehenskassenscheine.
Wattenscheid at this date was an independent industrial city in Westphalia, not yet absorbed into Bochum — that annexation came only in 1975.