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50 Pfennig Kreissparkasse
| Issuer | Kreissparkasse Neustadt am Rübenberge |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 92 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | A circular vignette at centre contains a finely drawn view of a Romanesque parish church with a pointed steeple, surrounded by trees, printed in polychrome letterpress; the denomination numeral '50' appears in large red figures at upper right and lower left corners. Two scroll cartouches at left and lower right carry the place name 'NEUSTADT' and the abbreviation 'a/R.' respectively, and the printer's imprint 'Stöckel Hannover' is lettered at lower right beneath the vignette. A plain red ruled border frames the entire design. |
| Reverse lettering | NEUSTADT a/R. 50 Stöckel Hannover |
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Kreissparkasse Neustadt am Rübenberge was one of hundreds of district savings banks that stepped into the currency vacuum of the early Weimar inflation years, issuing Notgeld when the Reichsbank simply could not produce small-denomination coin and paper fast enough to meet demand. These county-level institutions had no formal note-issuing authority — they issued on the strength of local trust and the implicit backing of municipal assets. Stöckel of Hannover was a workhorse regional printer for exactly this kind of emergency scrip, handling numerous Lower Saxon municipal and savings bank commissions during 1920–1921.