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70 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Insterburg |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | The upper register carries denomination numerals '70' in teal blue within corner cartouches flanking a central text panel in Gothic blackletter script, with the issuer name 'Insterburg' in large calligraphic script and the cheque payment clause 'Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber Siebzig Pfennig'. The lower half is occupied by a panoramic silhouette vignette of the Insterburg town skyline set against a golden sky with billowing clouds, rendered in a two-colour letterpress underprint. The account designation 'Konto V' and a serial number appear in boxed panels at the lower corners, with the printer's imprint 'FLEMMING-WISKOTT A.-G. GLOGAU' below the frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadtwappen verliehen am 10. Oktober 1583 Georg Friedrich Markgraf zu Brandenburg SIGILL CIVITATIS INSTERBURGENSIS G F 70 D.R.G.M. 795679 |
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Insterburg's municipal savings bank — Städtische Sparkasse Insterburg — issued low-denomination emergency currency during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. This 70 Pfennig note is an odd denomination, a direct consequence of local authorities calculating exact change requirements rather than following any standardized national scheme. Carl Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were prolific Notgeld printers of the period, supplying dozens of municipal issuers across Prussia simultaneously.
Insterburg itself, in East Prussia, was later renamed Chernyakhovsk by Soviet authorities in 1946 and resettled entirely — the issuing institution long since erased.