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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Verden (Aller), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 95 × 58 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue-grey notgeld printed on plain paper, with a decorative guilloche border framing the entire note and circular rosette underprints flanking the centre. The civic arms of Verden (Aller) — a tower motif — appears at the top centre beneath the issuer inscription STADT VERDEN and the legend GUT FÜR, with the large numeral 50 at centre flanked on both sides by the word PFENNIG in bold letterpress. Below, the place and date Verden (Aller), den 1. August 1917 are printed, followed by two manuscript signatures above the titles Der Magistrat and Der Bürgervorsteher-Wortführer, with a redemption clause in small text at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT VERDEN GUT FÜR PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG Verden (Aller), den 1. August 1917. Der Magistrat Der Bürgervorsteher-Wortführer Dieser Gutschein wird an allen städtischen Kassen von Verden jederzeit in Zahlung genommen; er verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats zur Einlösung bei der Kammereikasse Verden gelangt. |
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Verden an der Aller is a small cathedral town in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, its Magistrat issued Kleingeldscheine to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. Wartime hoarding and the requisitioning of copper, nickel, and zinc for munitions had stripped small change from everyday commerce far faster than the Reichsbank could address it. Municipal notgeld of this type was technically illegal under existing currency law but tolerated out of sheer necessity.
Verden's series is not among the more documented Lower Saxon issues, and surviving examples tend to show heavy handling — these were working notes in a market town, not collector pieces.