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50 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse zu Lilienthal |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Casten & Suhling, Bremen, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Sparkasse zu Lilienthal Mündelsicher 50 Notgeld DIESER SCHEIN WIRD VON ALLEN DEUTSCHEN SPARKASSEN UND GIROCENTRALEN IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN. ER VERLIERT DIE GÜLTIGKEIT 2 MONATE NACH ÖFFENTLICHER AUFKÜNDIGUNG, AUCH IN DER ZEITSCHRIFT "DIE SPARKASSE" LILIENTHAL DEN 15. APRIL 1921 DER VORSTAND VORS. DIREKTOR VALLIS LILIORUM MARIAE DAS KLOSTER LILIENTHAL WAR DER JUNGFRAU MARIA GEWEIHT / ALS DER ORT DER IHR GEHEILIGET |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in deep navy blue and ochre, presents a tripartite arched composition: the left arch contains a pastoral vignette of a grazing black-and-white cow beneath a stand of trees, while the right arch shows a man and woman in regional folk dress against a field of grain. The broad central arch presents a Lilienthal moorland landscape with a dark-sailed flat-bottomed boat traversing a reed-lined waterway and a low horizon beyond. The denomination '50' appears in bold at each lower corner flanking a central panel in Gothic script identifying the old administrative district and its parishes, with the artist's signature 'C. Jörres'; Low German dialect proverbs run along the top and bottom borders. |
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Lilienthal, a small town northeast of Bremen, was among hundreds of German municipalities that issued their own Kleingeldersatz during the early 1920s as the Reichsbank's coin supply collapsed under postwar economic strain. The local savings bank — the Sparkasse — rather than the town council itself, served as the issuing authority here, which was unusual enough to distinguish this piece within the broader Notgeld record.
Casten & Suhling were a Bremen commercial printing firm, not a specialist banknote house. The designer credit to C. Jörres suggests the artwork was commissioned locally.