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50 Pfennig Städtische Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Soest |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER GUTSCHEIN IST IM UMLAUF IN SOEST ER VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT 3 MONATE NACH ÖFFENTLICHER BEKANNTMACHUNG SOEST, OKT. 1919. STÄDT. SPARKASSE: 50 PFG. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central oval vignette with a finely engraved townscape of Soest, dominated by the tall Gothic spire and nave of St. Patrokli Cathedral set against a lightly hatched sky, with foreground figures and a street scene below. The denomination numeral '50' is repeated in each corner within the decorative border, the printer's imprint 'EDLER & KRISCHE HANNOVER' appears in small type at the bottom centre below the oval, and the lateral margins bear the local dialect motto text in vertical orientation. |
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Soest's municipal savings bank joined the wave of German municipal emergency currency in 1919, when the postwar coin shortage left local governments printing their own fractional notes to keep small transactions moving. Edler & Krische of Hanover supplied a significant portion of the Westphalian notgeld market during this period, handling print runs for numerous small issuers simultaneously — which means this note shares more than its format with dozens of neighboring issues.
Soest itself had a long tradition of civic independence dating to its Hanseatic period, though by 1919 that history was irrelevant to the immediate problem of making change.