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50 Pfennige
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Bodenwerder (City of Bodenwerder, Prussian province of Hanover) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gut für 50 Pfennige bis 1. Januar 1922. Bodenwerder, 1. Dez. 1919. Die Stadtsparkasse. 50 Pf. SELMAR BAYER BERLIN SO 36 |
| Reverse description | Dark grey-black note with a dense hatched background. A bold headline at the top reads 'Gutschein über 50 Pfennige', and at the bottom 'Sparkasse (Nr. ) Bodenwerder'. The central area is occupied by a rectangular cartouche with rounded corners containing a four-line rhyming verse in letterpress, urging recipients to accept and handle the note with care. |
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Bodenwerder's claim to fame is Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen, born there in 1720, and the town has never been shy about that association. This 1919 Stadtsparkasse notgeld is a product of the post-war coin shortage that prompted thousands of German municipalities to issue their own small-denomination emergency money — the Prussian province of Hanover alone generated hundreds of distinct types.
Selmar Bayer operated out of the Kreuzberg district of Berlin and handled notgeld commissions for numerous smaller issuers during 1919–1921. Volume work, competently executed.