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1 Pfennig Kaufmännischer Verein Allendorf-Sooden
| Issuer | Kaufmännischer Verein Allendorf (Werra)-Sooden |
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| Reference(s) | Tieste Va#0040.05.01 |
| Obverse description | Plain light green notgeld voucher with perforated edges on all sides, printed in black letterpress. The issuer's name 'Kaufmännischer Verein Allendorf (Werra)-Sooden.' appears at the top in two lines, separated from the denomination panel by a thin rule. Below, the word 'Gutschein' is set in bold type, followed by 'über' and the large numeral '1 Pfennig.' in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, printed on the same light green paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Allendorf an der Werra and the neighboring salt-works town of Sooden were small communities in Hesse-Nassau whose wartime Kleingeldersatz notes were issued not by a municipal authority but by a local merchants' association — the Kaufmännischer Verein. This was not unusual for 1917–1918 Germany, when the disappearance of low-denomination coinage forced civic and commercial organizations of almost any standing to print their own fractional substitutes.
The Tieste reference places this within the documented Notgeld corpus, but merchants' association issues from small towns in this region were typically printed in short runs and redeemed locally, meaning survivors are genuinely uncommon despite their modest face value.