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50 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse zu Wilster |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress vignette on cream paper; two cherubs flank a central cartouche bearing the Wilster municipal arms surmounted by a mural crown, with the denomination '50 Pfennig' repeated at each corner within circular frames. The legend GUTSCHEIN arches above the denomination, and the issuer inscription STÄDTISCHE SPARKASSE ZU WILSTER appears in a rectangular panel below. Two cursive manuscript signatures run across the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht (3) drei Monate nach erfolgter Aufforderung der Städtischen Sparkasse zu Wilster bei derselben eingelöst wird. Die Aufforderung erfolgt in der Wilsterschen Zeitung. Pfennig |
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Wilster is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — was among hundreds of local German institutions authorized to issue Notgeld during the First World War after small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost overnight. The Reichsbank's failure to supply adequate subsidiary coinage by 1917 pushed the problem down to the municipal level, producing exactly this kind of hyper-local emergency scrip.
Theodor Gries was a Hamburg commercial printer, not a specialist security press. Quality control across the Notgeld series varies accordingly.