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50 Pfennig Stadt-Sparkasse
| Issuer | Stadt-Sparkasse Treffurt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 70 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on pale cream paper with a light blue guilloche underprint, enclosed within an ornate foliate typographic border. Two dark oval cartouches at upper left and right each bear the denomination '50 Pfg.', while the central text in Gothic Fraktur reads 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig', below which the date, the issuer name 'Stadt-Sparkasse', and a manuscript signature appear. The crowned municipal coat of arms of Treffurt occupies the lower left, a circular Stadt-Sparkasse official seal the lower right, and the printer's imprint 'SELMAR BAYER, BERLIN SO. 36' runs along the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Pfg. Treffurt, den 15. Juni 1920. Stadt-Sparkasse Ungültig, wenn Nummer ganz oder teilweise fehlt, oder der Schein nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach ortsüblicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. SELMAR BAYER, BERLIN SO. 36 |
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Treffurt is a small town on the Werra river in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, its savings bank stepped in to plug a severe shortage of small-denomination coinage — not by any formal monetary authority, but out of practical necessity. This Kleingeldersatz note was one of thousands of such emergency issues that flooded the German market in the years immediately following the war, most printed by commercial jobbers in Berlin or Leipzig and redeemable only within the issuing locality.
Selmar Bayer was a mid-tier Berlin printing house that produced Notgeld for numerous minor issuers during this period. The run quantities for individual Treffurt issues are unrecorded.