Catalog
10 Pfennig Verkehrs-Verein
| Issuer | Verkehrs-Verein Calbe a. M. |
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| Size | 58 × 36 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Verkehrs-Verein Calbe a. M. Gutschein über 10 Pfennig Kontroll-Nummer |
| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse printed entirely in brown Gothic (Fraktur) script, unframed and without vignette or ornament. The redemption point is identified in three lines of decreasing formality: the header 'Einlösungsstelle:' followed by 'Commerz- u. Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft' and the agency designation 'Agentur: Calbe a. d. Milde'. A faint rectangular ghost impression from the obverse is visible at centre. |
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Calbe an der Milde is a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities during the World War I currency shortage, its local Verkehrs-Verein — a traders' or commerce association — stepped in to fill the gap left by the disappearance of small metal coins from circulation. These Verkehrsvereins had no banking authority; they issued notgeld on the strength of local trust alone. The Reichsbank's wartime hoarding of copper and nickel coinage drove even minor market towns to print their own fractional paper.