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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Vetschau |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green Kriegsgeld (war emergency note) with a decorative geometric border enclosing the entire face. The denomination numeral '50' appears in the upper left and right corners, with the heading 'Kriegsgeld.' at top centre. A large Gothic-script legend 'Fünfzig Pfennige' occupies the centre, above a text block stating the issuing authority's obligation to redeem the note, with validity clause 'Gültig bis zum 31. Dezember 1918.' At lower left the place and date 'Vetschau i. Spreewald, den 1. Juni 1917' are printed, flanked by the circular official seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Vetschau and a manuscript signature under the caption 'Der Magistrat:'. A faint Imperial eagle vignette serves as an underprint behind the central text. The printer's imprint 'JULIUS FIEDLER NACHF., GRÜNBERG I. SCHL.' appears along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the reverse carries a central vignette of the Imperial German eagle as a large underprint, flanked symmetrically by two Iron Cross emblems in the left and right fields. The denomination '50' is printed in the lower left and right corners, and a rectangular cartouche at the bottom centre bears the Gothic-script inscription 'Fünfzig Pfennig'. The same chain-link decorative border as on the obverse frames the entire design. |
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Vetschau is a small town in the Spreewald region of Lower Lusatia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, its magistrate issued Notgeld to address the severe coin shortage caused by wartime metal requisitioning. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying subsidiary coinage to smaller localities, forcing local authorities to print their own.
Julius Fiedler Nachfolger was a regional printer in Grünberg (now Zielona Góra, Poland) that handled Notgeld commissions for several municipalities in the area. These small-run local issues were often produced on whatever paper stock was available, and quality varied considerably across the series.