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10 Pfennig Kaufmännischer Verein
| Issuer | Kaufmännischer Verein E.V. Cottbus |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Kaufmännischen Vereins E.V. gegr. 1871 Cottbus Nur mit d. Vereinsstempel versehene Scheine haben Gültigkeit. 10 Pf. Dieser Gutschein wird von allen Mitgliedern des Kaufmännischen Vereins E.V. in Cottbus in Zah- lung genommen. Cottbus, im August 1921 Der Vorstand. Reihe D. Gültig bis 1. April 1922 Einlösungsstelle: Spremberger Str. 39 1871/1921 |
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| Reverse lettering | Kaufmännischer Verein E.V. Cottbus. |
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The Kaufmännischer Verein — a commercial merchants' association — was among thousands of German civic and trade organizations that issued their own emergency currency during the Weimar-era Notgeld crisis of 1921. Municipal and federal money had become structurally inadequate against accelerating inflation, and associations like this one in Cottbus filled the gap with locally validated scrip accepted within their membership network. The validation stamp was the only authentication mechanism, and counterfeiting of low-denomination Notgeld was, frankly, barely worth the effort at the time.