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75 Pfennig Sparkasse
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Schneidemühl |
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| Size | 90 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | DIE STÄDTISCHE SPARKASSE SCHNEIDEMÜHL ZAHLE GEGEN DIESEN SCHECK AUS MEINEM GUT- HABEN AN DEN JNHABER FÜNF UND SIEBZIG PFENNIG. Konto C FLEMMING-WISKOTT-A.-G. GLOGAU. (Translation: The Municipal Savings Bank of Schneidemühl will pay against this cheque from my account to the bearer seventy-five pfennig.) |
| Reverse description | A detailed line-engraved vignette of the Schneidemühl Government Building (Regierungsgebäude) set within an oval frame, viewed from across a landscaped foreground with trees to the right and shrubbery in the middle ground. The building is rendered as a long two-storey Neoclassical structure with regularly spaced windows and a hipped roof. Oak-leaf and berry ornaments in blue accent the upper corners, with blue denomination cartouches of '75 PF.' at lower left and right flanking a central inscription panel. |
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Schneidemühl — now Piła in northwestern Poland — was a Prussian railway junction town whose municipal savings bank issued notgeld during the acute small-change shortages of 1918–1921. Flemming & Wiskott in Glogau were among the more prolific regional notgeld printers of the period, supplying dozens of Posen and Silesian municipalities with emergency issues when central coinage had effectively vanished from circulation.
The Sparkasse designation matters: this was not a municipal treasury note but an instrument of the savings institution itself, a distinction that occasionally affected redemption obligations when inflation made the whole series worthless by late 1923.