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50 Kopeken Ostbank für Handel und Gewerbe, Darlehnskasse Ost
| Issuer | Ostbank für Handel und Gewerbe, Darlehnskasse Ost |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Rouble (Occupation currency, 1916) |
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| Obverse lettering | Darlehnskassenschein 50 Fünfzig Kopeken 50 Posen, den 17. April 1916. Ostbank für Handel und Gewerbe, Darlehnskasse Ost. Wer Darlehnskassenscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus bis zu acht Jahren bestraft. |
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| Reverse lettering | Skolinamosios kasos ženklas Penkiasdešimts kapeikų Wykaz kasy pożyczkowej Pięćdziesiąt kopiejek Aicdewu kafes žihme pezdeßmit kopeikas Kto wykazy kasy pożyczkowej podrabia lub fałszuje albo podrobione lub sfałszowane nabywa i puszcza je w obieg karanym będzie domem karnym do ośmiu lat. Kas padirba melagingus skolinamosios kasos ženklus arba tikruosius perdirba, arba padirbtus ar perdirbtus ima ir juos vartojimą skleidžia, bus baudžiamas katarga iki aštuonių metų. Kas aicdewu kafes žihmes pakąj taifa waj wilto, waj ari pakąj taifitas waj wiltotas few eegahda un ziteem isdod, tas teek fodits ar fpaidudarbeem līhdž astoni gadeem. |
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Darlehnskasse Ost was a German military-administered loan office established in 1916 to manage currency in the eastern occupied territories — a deliberate instrument of economic extraction rather than a conventional banking institution. The notes it issued were not redeemable in Reich marks at par, which kept local purchasing power artificially suppressed and German military procurement costs low.
Printed in Posen — itself under German control since the Partitions — the series circulated across a patchwork of occupied Russian and Polish territories where no single pre-existing currency remained viable. The 50 Kopeken denomination acknowledged the kopek-based mental arithmetic of the local population while keeping the issuing authority unmistakably German.