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75 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Lähn im Riesengebirge |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and blue on cream paper, divided into three vertical panels within a teal border. The central vignette presents a standing female figure in folk dress surrounded by doves in flight — identified by a scroll beneath as "Die Taubengustel", the symbolic emblem of Lähn. Flanking denomination cartouches in octagonal frames display the numeral "75" on both left and right, with the issuer text, serial number, and value in full spelled out in Gothic script along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Lähn im Riesengebirge DIE TAUBENGUSTEL, DAS WAHRZEICHEN VON LÄHN Die städtische Sparkasse Lähn im Riesengebirge Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus meinem Guthaben an den Inhaber FÜNFUNDSIEBZIG PFENNIG Lähn i. Riesengebirge HEINZ SCHIESTL |
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Lähn im Riesengebirge was a small spa town in Lower Silesia, and its municipal savings bank — the Städtische Sparkasse — issued this Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott press in Glogau was a workhorse of Silesian emergency currency production, turning out small-denomination notes for dozens of local issuers across the region in quick succession.
Lähn itself became Wleń after the postwar border shifts handed the territory to Poland, then passed to Germany again, then definitively to Poland in 1945. The savings bank that issued this note ceased to exist in any recognizable form long before that final transfer.