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50 Pfennig

Issuer Magistrat der Stadt Eberswalde
Year 1919
Type Local banknote
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Obverse lettering Dieser Gutschein wird jederzeit an den städtischen Kassen bis 2. Januar 1921 eingelöst. Eberswalde / den 14. Novb. 1919 Der Magistrat 50 Fünfzig Pfennig
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Reverse lettering Eberswalder Notgeld 50 Pf KARL WAHL Aug. Arendt Eberswalde Eberswalder Notgeld 1920
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Eberswalde's 1919 Notgeld issue was one of thousands produced by German municipalities scrambling to fill the small-denomination coin vacuum left by wartime metal hoarding and postwar economic paralysis. What sets local issues like this apart from the major city series is the printer: Aug. Arendt was a regional commercial press, not a security printer, working within real constraints of ink, paper stock, and engraving capacity. The designer credit to Karl Wahl is unusually specific for a Kleingeldschein of this type — most small-town issues went uncredited entirely.

Eberswalde, a modest industrial and forestry town northeast of Berlin, had no particular monetary infrastructure of its own. The Magistrat issued on its civic authority alone.

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