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50 Pfennig

Issuer Kreiskommunalkasse Dramburg
Year 1920
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Shape Rectangular
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Obverse lettering Fünfzig Pfennig
zahlt die Kreiskommunalkasse in Dramburg ohne Legitimationsprüfung dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines bis spätestens einen Monat nach amtlicher Bekanntmachung im Dramburger Kreisblatt.
Dramburg den 6. August 1920
50
der Kreisausschuß:
Reverse description Light blue note printed in black, red, and grey with a fine guilloche border. A central colour vignette in a folk-art style shows a grinding wheel (Schleifmühle) with a windmill in the background, attended by several costumed figures including a jester and tradesmen. Denomination numerals '50' appear in red within circular cartouches at upper left and right, with the issuer inscription 'Kreis Dramburg' across the top. A scrolled ribbon below the central vignette carries a two-part rhyming verse, and the serial number is printed in a red-bordered rectangular panel at the foot.
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Dramburg — today Drawsko Pomorskie in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian market town, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change to compensate for the chronic shortage of coin that persisted well after the Armistice. The Kreiskommunalkasse, the district communal treasury rather than a private bank or savings institution, was the issuing authority — a detail that reflects how deeply the Kleingeldnot had penetrated into local administrative machinery by this point.

The watermarked paper is notable given the modest denomination; most Notgeld of this value relied on plain stock.

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