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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Nörenberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld on buff paper, with an ornate scrollwork cartouche enclosing the denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" and a central Prussian eagle vignette. Flanking text names the Städtische Sparkasse as payer, with validity clause in two columns. Date "Nörenberg, den 1. Juni 1920" and Magistrat signature appear at foot, with denomination "50" in squared panels at lower corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Nörenberg Fünfzig Pfennig zahlt die städtische Sparkasse dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines Die Gültigkeit dieses Notgeldscheines erlischt 3 Monate nach erfolgter ortsüblicher Bekanntmachung Nörenberg, den 1. Juni 1920 Der Magistrat: ROBERT KOCH |
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Nörenberg — today Ińsko, in what is now northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian market town that, like hundreds of German municipalities, turned to locally produced Notgeld when the postwar coin shortage made small change functionally impossible to obtain. The Städtische Sparkasse issued this 50 Pfennig note under emergency authority extended to savings institutions as well as municipal governments, a practical concession to the scale of the shortage.
Robert Koch as designer almost certainly refers to a local commercial artist rather than a printing house — Nörenberg had no significant print industry, and small-town Notgeld of this type was frequently designed in-house or commissioned from local tradesmen.