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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß Calau (District Committee of Calau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Pfennigs (20 Pfennige) (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | KREIS CALAU Gutschein 20 Pfennig Gültig bis 31. Dezbr. 1921 Einzulösen bei der Kreiskommunalkasse zu Calau REIHE P. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 20 Pfennig Calau, im Mai 1920. Der Kreisausschuß |
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Calau is a small town in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, and its district committee issued this note during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1919–1921, when a catastrophic shortage of low-denomination coinage forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own fractional currency. The Reichsbank had effectively abandoned small change; local administrative bodies filled the gap with whatever printer was available.
Johannes Pässler of Dresden-Neustadt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security press — a common arrangement for notgeld of this type, where urgency mattered more than sophistication.