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50 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Schneidemühl |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE STÄDTISCHE SPARKASSE SCHNEIDEMÜHL ZAHLE GEGEN DIESEN SCHECK AUS MEINEM GUTHABEN AN DEN INHABER FÜNFZIG PFENNIG. 50 PF. Konto D SCHNEIDEMÜHL. FLEMMING·WISKOTT·A·G·GLOGAU. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a large oval vignette in fine letterpress line work, showing the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schneidemühl with its twin towers, rose window, and surrounding trees rendered against a hatched sky. The oval is set within a rectangular frame, with blue rosette ornaments filling the corners above a dark patterned underprint. A rectangular panel along the base identifies the subject in bold sans-serif capitals, and two blue denomination tablets reading '50 PF.' flank the inscription; the registered design number 'D. R. G. M. 795679' also appears. |
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Schneidemühl — now Piła in northwestern Poland — was a Prussian railway hub whose municipal savings bank issued notgeld during the chronic small-change shortages that plagued German commerce from 1916 onward. The Städtische Sparkasse series was a practical response to a genuine problem: coins had been withdrawn from circulation as metal was requisitioned for the war effort, and small transactions became genuinely difficult to conduct.
Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific notgeld printers of the period, handling municipal contracts across Silesia and Posen province. The Glogau press is often confused with later Polish successor operations — the city became Głogów after 1945, but production here dates to the German period without ambiguity.