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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Geestemünde |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Franz Scherrer, Hannover, Germany |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on a grey-beige ground and enclosed within a plain ruled border. At upper left, a circular vignette in black carries the denomination numeral '50' in red above the legend 'PFENNIG' in red. To the right, the issuing authority text and payment instruction are set in Gothic blackletter type, dated Geestemünde, den 1. Oktober 1920, with the account reference 'Konto Nr. 112' and the endorsement of fish merchant 'Fischversand SATURN / Joh. Müller' in script. The lower half is dominated by a detailed letterpress vignette of the steam trawler SATURN PG.164 underway before a quayside warehouse, above which a large tricolour pennant bearing the motto 'ORA ET LABORA' billows diagonally; at lower right, a circular medallion displays the planet Saturn in red. |
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| Reverse lettering | von Hindenburg Heran an die Arbeit! |
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Geestemünde — the port city at the mouth of the Geeste river — was absorbed into the newly created city of Bremerhaven in 1924, which gives this 1920 Sparkasse issue an inadvertent finality: the municipal savings institution that signed it would cease to exist as a distinct entity within four years. The note belongs to the vast wave of German Kleingeldersatz emergency coinage substitutes produced as metal shortages and postwar inflation made low-denomination coins impossible to keep in circulation.
Franz Scherrer of Hannover was a minor regional printer responsible for numerous Notgeld contracts across Lower Saxony.