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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuß Calau (District Committee of Calau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 78 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Rose-red guilloche underprint covering the entire field, with the issuer name KREIS CALAU in bold block letters across the upper portion. The denomination Gutschein 50 Pfennig is set centrally in large ornate letterpress type, flanked by decorative acanthus scroll vignettes, with the validity clause Gültig bis 31. Dezbrr. 1921 in a ribbon below the numeral. Redemption text and series letter with serial number appear at the lower margin, with the printer's imprint along the bottom edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | KREIS CALAU Gutschein 50 Pfennig Gültig bis 31. Dezbr. 1921 Einzulösen bei der Kreiskommunalkasse zu Calau. REIHE K. No JOHANNES PÄSSLER / DRESDEN-NEUST. |
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Calau is a small district in Lower Lusatia, and like hundreds of German administrative bodies in 1920, its Kreisausschuß issued emergency fractional currency — Kleingeldersatz — to address the chronic coin shortage that persisted well after the Armistice. These district-level issues were authorised under broad enabling provisions rather than any specific Reichsbank mandate, which is why the typography, format, and artwork vary so dramatically across issuers of the same period.
Johannes Pässler of Dresden-Neustadt was a commercial printer who handled a number of Saxony-region Notgeld contracts. Not a specialist security printer — which shows in the relatively simple anti-counterfeiting measures on most pieces from this shop.