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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse Dramburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-orange reverse printed in black, with the denomination '50 Pfg.' in Gothic blackletter at top centre flanked by the numerals '50' at left and right. A central oval vignette shows a farmer guiding a horse-drawn harrow across a field, with birds in flight above, encircled by the motto 'Sich regen, bringt Segen.' Below the vignette the issuer name 'Kreis Dramburg' appears in large Gothic script, with a serial number in a scroll cartouche at foot. Four heraldic shield vignettes occupy the corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Dramburg — now Drawsko Pomorskie in northwestern Poland — was a small Pomeranian administrative district that issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's defeat in 1918. Metal coinage had largely vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and local authorities across Germany were authorized to fill the gap with Kleingeldersatz paper. The Kreiskommunalkasse, the district's communal treasury rather than any commercial bank, was the issuing body here — a relatively unusual arrangement at the county level, where savings banks and municipalities more commonly handled emergency currency.
The watermarked paper distinguishes this issue from the bulk of Notgeld printed on plain stock.