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50 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse der Stadt Dömitz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted note with a dark olive-green ornamental border composed of interlaced guilloche work and corner medallions bearing the numeral '50'. The city arms of Dömitz — a tower gate — appear in the upper left, beside the issuer heading 'STADT DÖMITZ / GUTSCHEIN / ÜBER'. A central horizontal vignette carries the large denomination numeral '50' flanked on either side by the word 'PFENNIG' within decorative cartouches. Below, the date 'den 1. Juni 1920' and the issuing authority 'Sparkasse der Stadt Dömitz i/M' are printed alongside a manuscript signature, with a two-line redemption clause in German text occupying the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green note with the same ornamental guilloche border and corner '50' medallions as the obverse. The central vignette presents a finely engraved view of the Dömitz fortress bastion, with cylindrical towers, a gateway arch, trees, and a flagpole; the label 'BASTION' appears above the structure. A scroll cartouche at the top bears the inscription 'STADT DÖMITZ i/M', while a lower ribbon cartouche carries a Low German quotation attributed to Fritz Reuter. |
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Dömitz is a small town on the Elbe in Mecklenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, its savings bank issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of coins that followed wartime metal requisitioning and postwar economic dislocation. The Sparkasse der Stadt Dömitz had no special authority to issue currency in any meaningful sense; it was filling a practical void that the Reichsbank was unable to address at the local level.
These hyper-local issues were printed in enormous variety, often by small regional printers, and survivorship is essentially random.