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50 Pfennig Spar- und Leihkasse
| Issuer | Spar- und Leihkasse der Stadt Aurich |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Selmar Bayer, Berlin, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Red and black letterpress note with a red guilloche underprint covering the entire field. Denomination numerals '50' appear in ornamental cartouches at left and right, with the title 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in bold Gothic blackletter across the upper centre. A small municipal coat of arms vignette is printed in red at centre, above the issue date 'Aurich, den 1. September 1918' and the issuer name 'Spar- und Leihkasse der Stadt Aurich' in large Gothic script; two manuscript signatures appear below. The outer border consists of a repeating sawtooth ornamental frame in red and black, with the printer's imprint 'Selmar Bayer, Berlin SO. 36' in the lower left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig zahlen wir dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines ohne Legitimations-Prüfung. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung der Kasse durch die Ostfriesischen Nachrichten in Aurich bei uns zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. Aurich, den 1. September 1918. Spar- und Leihkasse der Stadt Aurich. |
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Aurich's municipal savings and loan institution — the Spar- und Leihkasse — issued this note in 1918 under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German local authorities to plug the chronic small-denomination coin shortage caused by wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning. Selmar Bayer in Berlin, a printer active in the Notgeld trade, handled production. The East Frisian town was administratively modest, which makes Aurich municipal issues less common in quantity than those from larger Prussian centres.