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10 Pfennig Greizer Bankverein
| Issuer | Greizer Bankverein e.G.m.b.H., Greiz |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Greizer Bankverein e.G.m.b.H., Greiz GREIZER BANKVEREIN e.G.m.b.H. GREIZ Gutschein über Zehn Pfennig. Greizer Bankverein e.G.m.b.H. Greiz, den 1. Jan. 1917 Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1918 (Translation: Greizer Bankverein e.G.m.b.H., Greiz / GREIZER BANKVEREIN e.G.m.b.H. GREIZ / Voucher / for / Ten Pfennig. / Greizer Bankverein e.G.m.b.H. / Greiz, 1 January 1917 / Valid until 31 December 1918) |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfennig 10 |
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Greizer Bankverein was a cooperative credit institution — a Genossenschaftsbank — based in the small Thuringian town of Greiz, then capital of the Principality of Reuss. Like hundreds of similar local issuers across Germany, it entered the notgeld market in 1917 as coin shortages reached crisis level, small-denomination metal having been systematically withdrawn for war production. The cooperative's legal structure, "e.G.m.b.H." — eingetragene Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftpflicht — was common among provincial savings and credit bodies but relatively unusual among notgeld issuers, which more typically were municipalities or chambers of commerce.
Reuss itself ceased to exist as a sovereign entity in November 1918.