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1/2 Mark Verein Naturschutzpark/Heidepark
| Issuer | Verein Naturschutzpark e.V., Stuttgart |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Hilfsschein des Vereins Naturschutzpark e.V. Sitz Stuttgart / Gutschein über / FÜNFZIG PFENNIG / Gültig nur in den Gaststätten d. Vereins Naturschutzpark in Wilsede u. in Niederhaverbeck, Kreis Soltau (Hannover) bis 31. Dezember 1921 / für die Einlösung bis 31. Dezember 1921 bürgt die Geschäftsstelle des Vereins Naturschutzpark e.V. Sitz Stuttgart Pfizerstrase 5 / Nachahmung strafbar / No 001521 / "Erhaltet dem deutschen Volk den Heidepark" |
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| Reverse lettering | 1/2 MARK / 1/2 MARK / IN GRAUER VORZEIT |
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The Verein Naturschutzpark, founded in 1909, was one of Germany's earliest organized nature conservation societies, dedicated to preserving heathland — particularly the Lüneburg Heath — from agricultural enclosure and industrial development. During the hyperinflationary crisis of the early 1920s, municipalities, businesses, and civic organizations across Germany issued their own emergency currency (Notgeld) when official small denomination coins vanished from circulation. That a conservation society found itself in the business of printing fractional currency is a small but telling symptom of how thoroughly the Reichsmark's collapse had disrupted daily commerce.
The DeNG reference distinguishes two varieties (.1 and .2), suggesting at minimum a paper stock or overprint difference between print runs.