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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Vreden (Sparkasse in Vreden) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 90.5 × 51.4 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. STADT VREDEN 1917 |
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| Protection description | Repeated typographic underprint of "STADT VREDEN 1917" with small shield vignettes covering both obverse and reverse as a security background |
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Vreden is a small Westphalian market town near the Dutch border, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when wartime metal shortages made coins effectively disappear from circulation. This note was administered through the local Sparkasse — the municipal savings institution — rather than a private bank, which was the norm for Notgeld of this scale and geography.
The Grabowski and Vandor catalog numbers suggest at least two variants exist for this denomination from Vreden. The underprint is the only security measure, modest even by the standards of town-issued Notgeld from this period.