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50 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse des Kreises Fallingbostel, Sparkasse zu Fallingbostel, and Walsroder Bankverein E.G.m.b.H. |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | J. C. König & Ebhardt, Hannover, Germany (1845-1999) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue note with a fine diamond-pattern guilloche underprint and an ornate dark blue border of interlaced lace-like scrollwork with rosette cornerpieces. The central vignette consists of a large dark circular medallion bearing the white numeral '50', flanked on either side by the denomination tablet 'PFENNIG' in bold white letters on a dark ground, set within an elaborate acanthus and guilloche surround. The issuing date 'WALSRODE UND FALLINGBOSTEL, 1. JULI 1920' appears below the central device, followed by the names of the three co-issuing institutions in bold letterpress, and three manuscript facsimile signatures at the foot; the printer's imprint 'J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER' is typeset along the bottom margin. A serial number in dark ink appears vertically along the left edge, while validity conditions are printed vertically in small type along the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gegen diesen Schein zahlen die unterzeichneten Kassen PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG an den Überbringer. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufkündigung. WALSRODE UND FALLINGBOSTEL, 1. JULI 1920. SPARKASSE DES KREISES FALLINGBOSTEL SPARKASSE ZU FALLINGBOSTEL WALSRODER BANKVEREIN E.G.M.B.H. WALSRODE J.C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER. |
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Three separate issuers — the Kreis savings bank, the town savings bank, and a local cooperative banking society — sharing a single printed Notgeld design in 1920 is unusual enough to warrant attention. The Walsroder Bankverein E.G.m.b.H. in particular represents the kind of small regional cooperative that proliferated under Prussian banking law but rarely appears as a co-issuer on emergency currency. J. C. König & Ebhardt, a Hannover printing house with deep roots in commercial and security printing, handled the presswork — a logical choice given their proximity to the Fallingbostel district.