75 Pfennig Sparkasse

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.