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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt-Sparkasse Canth (Lower Silesia) |
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| Printer | Grube & Schneider, Freiburg (Schlesien) |
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| Obverse lettering | Pfennige STADT-SPAR-KASSE Zwei Monate zahlt gegen diesen Scheck an den Inhaber Der Magis-trat. Soppe nach Aufruf ungültig. STADT CANTH GRUBE & SCHNEIDER, FREIBURG, SCHLES. |
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| Reverse lettering | Herzog Bartel allbekannt 50 hat sich bei Canth das Maul verbrannt. |
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Canth — now Kąty Wrocławskie in southwestern Poland — issued this Notgeld during the inflation-era municipal scrip wave that swept German towns between 1916 and 1922. The Stadt-Sparkasse, a municipal savings institution rather than a commercial bank, was the issuing authority, which places this firmly in the civic emergency currency tradition rather than private commercial scrip.
Grube & Schneider operated out of Freiburg in Schlesien — present-day Świebodzice — a small regional printer whose output was almost entirely confined to Lower Silesian Notgeld issues. The single signature, Soppe, almost certainly belongs to a Sparkasse director or authorized signatory of the period, though no fuller biographical record has been traced.