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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Geestemünde |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 103 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Konto Nr. 112 Städtische Sparkasse Geestemünde in Geestemünde wolle zahlen gegen diese Anweisung aus Guthaben an, oder Überbringer 50 Pfennig. Geestemünde, den 1. Oktober 1920. Fischversand "SATURN" Joh. Müller ORA ET LABORA 50 PFENNIG FRANZ SCHERRER HANNOVER |
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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.