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50 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Wunstorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Teal and black Notgeld note with the issuer's title in Gothic script along the upper banner reading 'Sparkasse der Stadt Wunstorf' above the central denomination panel. The bold black scroll cartouche carries the denomination legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in heavy Gothic letterpress, flanked by numeral '50' tablets at left and right. Below, a small vignette of the Wunstorf town gate appears alongside the payment obligation text, issue date of 15 November 1920, serial number, and manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette on the left half presents a detailed landscape view of a Wunstorf church and surrounding buildings rendered in pen-and-wash style against a cloudy sky. To the right, a decorative scroll cartouche reproduces an excerpt in Latin from the 871 AD charter of Ludwig the German, with a cross symbol and the legend 'Signum domini Hludouuici regis serenissimi'. A horizontal ornamental band with interlocking geometric motifs runs beneath the vignette, centred by a heraldic shield bearing the numeral '50'. The printer's imprint 'Müller & Mahnkopp, Hildesheim' appears in the lower left margin. |
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Wunstorf's municipal savings bank — the Sparkasse der Stadt Wunstorf — issued this note as part of the vast flood of Kleingeldersatz that swept Germany after the First World War stripped the country of its silver and copper coinage. Müller & Mahnkopp of Hildesheim, a regional commercial printer rather than a specialist security firm, handled the job, which was entirely typical of how smaller municipalities sourced their emergency currency in 1920.
The DeNG reference suffix "1a-4/4" indicates this is the fourth variety within the 1458.1a subgroup, suggesting the series ran through multiple printings or text variants — details that make completion of a full type set genuinely fiddly.