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1 Pfennig Detaillisten-Vereinigung der Bezirke Witzenhausen, Oberkaufungen, Lichtenau, Großalmerode
| Issuer | Detaillisten-Vereinigung der Bezirke Witzenhausen, Oberkaufungen, Lichtenau, Großalmerode e.V. |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper with perforated edges, bearing a central letterpress stamp impression in Gothic script with the abbreviated issuer designation 'Detaillisten-Vereinigung d. Bz. W. O. L. G.' and a further abbreviated reference line below. A manuscript inscription in handwritten script runs along the left margin, consistent with a handwritten authorisation or location notation. |
| Reverse lettering | Detaillisten- Vereini gung d. Bz. W. O. L. G. Eing. Ver. |
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The Detaillisten-Vereinigung — a retailers' association covering four small districts in the Kassel region of Hesse — issued this note as local emergency currency, almost certainly during the inflationary crisis years of the early Weimar period when small-denomination coin simply vanished from everyday commerce. Retailers' associations issuing their own Notgeld was not unheard of, but the four-district consortium here is unusually specific, suggesting a coordinated response to coin shortages across a cluster of neighbouring market towns rather than a single municipal authority.
The Tieste Va catalogue reference places it firmly in the Kleingeldscheine classification — fractional emergency scrip rather than the decorative collector-oriented issues that flooded Germany after 1921.