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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Flatow (District Committee of Flatow, West Prussia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency money) voucher printed in black letterpress on a tan guilloche underprint composed of interlocking geometric and foliate patterns. The title inscription 'Gutschein des Kreises Flatow' appears in Gothic blackletter type across the top, with the large numeral '50' centred and 'PFENNIGE' below it. Denomination cornerpieces reading '50' appear in all four corners; flanking text blocks state the redemption conditions at the Kreiskommunalkasse in Flatow and the public notice period in the Flatower Zeitung, with the issue date 'Flatow, den 26. Juli 1918.' and a manuscript signature below the legend 'Der Vorsthende des Kreisausschusses'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Kreises Flatow 50 PFENNIGE Zahlbar bei der Kreiskommunal-kasse in Flatow spätestens einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung in der Flatower Zeitung Flatow, den 26. Juli 1918. Der Vorsthende des Kreisausschusses |
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Flatow — today Złotów in northwestern Poland — was an administrative district in West Prussia that issued this note during the final year of World War One, when the Reichsbank's small-denomination coinage had all but vanished from circulation. Hoarding and wartime metal requisitions had created a coin famine across Germany by 1917–1918, and hundreds of district and municipal authorities responded by printing their own Kleingeldersatz — substitute small change — under emergency authorization.
The Kreisausschuss, the elected district executive committee, was the typical issuing body at this administrative level. These notes were by design strictly local, theoretically redeemable only within the issuing district, which is why so many survived: shopkeepers and residents often held them past the redemption window rather than make the trip.