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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Wiedenbrück |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Kreises Wiedenbrück in Westfalen Pfennig 50 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreis-Kommunal-Kasse und der Kreissparkasse, sowie von allen Stadt-, Amts-, Gemeinde- und Spar-Kassen des Kreises Wiedenbrück in Zahlung genommen. Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb 3 Monaten nach im Kreisblatt erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung bei der Kreisspartkasse Wiedenbrück vorgelegt wird. Wiedenbrück, den 15. Februar 1918 Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Wiedenbrück KREISAUSSCHUSS DES KREISES WIEDENBRÜCK |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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Wiedenbrück notgeld from the emergency currency wave of 1918, when the German imperial government effectively delegated small-denomination coinage shortfall onto municipalities, counties, and even private firms. The Kreisausschuss — the county committee — was the administrative body responsible for this issue, not a bank. That distinction mattered legally, though in practice nobody refused the notes.
J. C. König & Ebhardt was a Hannover commercial printer with deep roots in administrative and stationery work, not a security printing specialist. That said, their notgeld output during 1917–1921 was substantial, and the firm's production quality was consistent enough that forgery of low-denomination county issues was rarely worth the effort.