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50 Pfennig Stadtbank
| Issuer | Stadtbank Striegau |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in matching blue, teal, and amber, with an elaborate foliate border. A panoramic vignette occupies the upper centre, showing a wide landscape view of Striegau in Silesia with mountains in the background, church steeples, and ruins at right, signed 'BRUNO HANDKE' within the vignette frame. Below the panorama, the town name 'Striegau i. Schles.' is inscribed on a tablet flanked by the municipal coat of arms — a shield bearing two standing saintly figures — set between two large '50' numerals in amber; a local saying in Gothic script runs along the bottom edge. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines erfolgt bei der Stadtbank Striegau im Rathause. Der Zeitpunkt mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekannt gegeben. Striegau i. Schles. BRUNO HANDKE. Striegau hat drei Berge, Einen Strietzel u. zwei Quatrge. |
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Striegau's Stadtbank was one of dozens of small municipal and savings institutions that issued notgeld during the postwar inflation spiral, when Reichsbank notes were simply unavailable in sufficient small denominations to keep local commerce moving. Bruno Handke — a local printer operating within the town itself — designed and produced this note, which is uncommon. Most notgeld of this period was farmed out to specialist printers in Leipzig or Berlin; purely local production like this tends to show in the typography and registration, sometimes charmingly, sometimes not.
Striegau itself became Strzegom after the 1945 expulsion of its German population and transfer to Poland.