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1 Pfennig Kaufmännischer Verein/Vorschußverein, gothic type
| Issuer | Kaufmännischer Verein / Vorschußverein Trebnitz |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper notgeld of simple typeset design, printed in black letterpress within a double-line rectangular border. The serial number, prefixed 'Nr.', appears at the upper portion, followed by the bold denomination '1 Pfennig' in gothic type at centre, with the issuer inscription 'Kaufmännischer Verein Trebnitz Schl.' in gothic script below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der Vorschußverein Trebnitz zahlt gegen diesen Gutschein 1 Pf. Nicht zusammenfalten |
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Trebnitz — now Trzebnica in Lower Silesia, Poland — was a small Prussian market town, and this 1 Pfennig notgeld is about as local as emergency currency gets. The Kaufmännischer Verein (merchants' association) and Vorschußverein (credit cooperative) appear to have issued jointly, an arrangement that was practical rather than unusual for small-town Silesian associations navigating wartime coin shortages after 1914.
The gothic typeface is the only typographic flourish — this is a purely functional printed slip, the kind produced by the thousands across German-speaking towns when small-denomination coins vanished from circulation entirely.