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50 Mark Kreis Segeberg
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Segeberg (District Committee of Segeberg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark teal on cream paper with an overall floral and geometric underprint of stylised palmette motifs. The heading 'Aushilfsschein für den Kreis Segeberg' is set in a bold blackletter typeface at the top, above the large denomination inscription 'Fünfzig Mark' in gothic script at centre. Flanking the central text are two vertical panels, each bearing the numeral '50' above the word 'Mark' and a series letter 'A' in a dotted box at the top; the issue date 'Segeberg, den 8. November 1918', validity clause 'Gültig bis 15. Januar 1919', and the issuing authority line 'Namens des Kreisausschusses / Der Landrat' appear below the denomination, with a manuscript signature of the Landrat at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Aushilfsschein für den Kreis Segeberg Fünfzig Mark A 50 Mark Gültig bis 15. Januar 1919. Segeberg, den 8. November 1918. Namens des Kreisausschusses Der Landrat. |
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Kreis Segeberg lies in Holstein, and this 1918 emergency issue is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities as the imperial economy buckled under wartime strain. The Reichsbank's refusal to release sufficient small-denomination coinage forced district committees, towns, and even individual businesses to print their own substitute currency — a legally tolerated stopgap that produced thousands of distinct local issues across Germany in 1917–18.
C. H. Wäsers Druckerei was a local press in Segeberg itself, which keeps this squarely in the hyperlocal category of Notgeld — no Berlin or Hamburg printer involved. The 50 Mark denomination is on the higher end for emergency scrip of this period, when most Notgeld was issued in Pfennig and low-Mark values to address the coin shortage specifically.