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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis Wittlich (District of Wittlich) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Carl Schleicher & Schüll, Düren, Germany (1862-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird vom Kreise Wittlich durch die Kreiskommunalkasse in Zahlung genommen. Der allgemeine Einlösungstermin tritt drei Monate nach vorheriger Bekanntgabe im Wittlicher Kreisblatt ein. Wittlich, den 15. Sept. 1919 Der Kreisausschuß KREIS WITTLICH |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 UERZIGER WURZGARTEN PIESPORTER GOLDTROPCHEN WAIDMANNSHEIL KREIS WITTLICH 1919 ES BLICKEN GAR STOLZ IN DIE GELDARME ZEIT, DIE STEINREICHEN BURGEN VON MANDERSCHEID. Carl Schleicher & Schüll Düren. |
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Kreis Wittlich issued this note in 1919 as part of the vast Notgeld phenomenon that swept German-speaking territories following the collapse of the imperial monetary system and the coin shortages that preceded it. District-level authorities — Kreise among them — had no formal mandate to issue currency, but the practical vacuum left by Berlin compelled them to act. Wittlich sits in the Moselle wine country of the Eifel, a rural administrative backwater with no particular monetary history of its own.
Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren printed enormous volumes of Kleingeldscheine for municipalities across the Rhineland during this period, which makes their involvement here entirely unsurprising — and useful for dating, since the firm's records help authenticate disputed examples.