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50 Pfennig Amtssparkasse
| Issuer | Amtssparkasse zu Osterholz |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Green guilloche underprint with corner rosette ornaments; central oval vignette with engraved view of the Kreishaus at Osterholz-Scharmbeck within geometric border. Denomination numeral "50" in ornate cartouches left and right; year "1921" and town name in bold blackletter at top. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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Amtssparkasse zu Osterholz was a district savings institution — not a commercial bank — issuing this note under the emergency currency provisions that flooded Germany with Kleingeldersatz following the post-WWI coinage shortage. Osterholz, a small administrative district in Lower Saxony, relied on local printers rather than the major security firms. Casten & Suhling, based in Bremen, handled a range of such municipal and institutional commissions in the region, though they were primarily a commercial print house rather than a specialist currency printer.
The guilloche underprint is the only concession to anti-counterfeiting — entirely adequate for a note whose face value made forgery economically pointless.