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| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bielefeld |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Red and blue letterpress design with a central red diamond-shaped vignette bearing the large denomination numeral '50 Pf' and the issuer's name 'Stadtsparkasse Bielefeld' in Gothic blackletter script above a payment pledge text dated Bielefeld 15.5.21 with facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and Oberbürgermeister. Six circular medallions arranged around the border contain blue pictorial vignettes representing local guilds, trade symbols, and city emblems, with vertical inscriptions along the left and right edges reading 'SPARKASSEN VERWALTUNG' and along the lower border 'OO HALLE IN WESTFALEN OO'. Population statistics are printed in a circular band around the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Red and blue letterpress design in the same decorative style as the obverse, with a central black diamond-shaped vignette containing a bold silhouette scene of the biblical Saint Peter and figures, surrounded by Low German dialect inscriptions: 'DA KANNTEN X DRAN MAKEN PETRUS EK SITT OP MINEEGEN' and 'DAT SCHMIPIKEN V BIELEFELD ALS STORENFRIED IM HIMMEL'. Six circular medallions around the border contain blue pictorial vignettes of pine trees, a snowflake motif, a standing figure, and date shields inscribed '19/1/1920', '1923.III.', '1920.27', '1647-1918'; marginal inscriptions read 'Schmidtkes', 'von Pfasgeld', '1221 bis 1921', 'von Infelsches'. The series letter 'CH' appears at lower left and a serial number at lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf DA KANNTEN X DRAN MAKEN PETRUS EK SITT OP MINEEGEN DAT SCHMIPIKEN V BIELEFELD ALS STORENFRIED IM HIMMEL Schmidtkes von Pfasgeld 1221 bis 1921 von Infelsches 19/1/1920 1923.III. 1920.27 1647-1918 CH |
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