50 Pfennig Gemeinde-Sparkasse

Bergen an der Dumme is a small village in Lower Saxony, and in 1922 it was producing its own emergency currency alongside thousands of other German municipalities drowning in the hyperinflationary surge that followed the First World War. Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was a prolific printer of Notgeld during this period, supplying dozens of small issuers across northern Germany who lacked any practical access to Reichsbank facilities.

The Gemeinde-Sparkasse designation — a municipal savings institution rather than a commercial bank — reflects how far down the administrative ladder emergency issuance had traveled by 1922.