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75 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Neumarkt in Schlesien |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour note in terracotta, brown, and blue, divided into three vertical panels. The central panel carries a vignette of the Neumarkt town hall gable (Rathausgiebel) rendered in a detailed illustrative style, with blue window accents, surmounted by a scroll cartouche inscribed 'RATHAUSGIEBEL'. The two flanking panels are filled with a symmetrical botanical underprint of stylised foliage and floral sprigs in terracotta, with hatched numeral '75' at centre of each side panel; the series designation 'SERIE II' appears in the lower left corner. |
| Reverse lettering | RATHAUSGIEBEL SERIE II |
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Neumarkt in Schlesien — now Środa Śląska in southwestern Poland — issued this note during the Weimar-era notgeld crisis of 1921, when the catastrophic shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank coinage forced municipal savings institutions to produce their own emergency currency. The Städtische Sparkasse, a savings bank rather than a commercial lender, had no legal authority to issue money under normal circumstances; the notgeld framework gave it cover to do so temporarily.
Grass, Barth & Comp., operating under the W. Friedrich imprint in Breslau, was one of Silesia's most active notgeld printers during this period, supplying dozens of municipalities across the region.