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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Vorschuß-Verein Neuhaus-Elbe |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Small-format notgeld voucher printed in dark green on pale paper, the entire face covered by a geometric guilloche underprint of interlocking foliate and scroll patterns framed by a double-rule border. The word 'Gutschein' appears in bold Gothic lettering at the top, followed by the issuer name 'Vorschuß-Verein Neuhaus-Elbe' in two lines at centre; the large numeral '50' and the denomination 'Pfennig' are printed in heavy letterpress below. A lower cartouche within the frame carries the validity inscription 'Giltig bis 1. Januar 1923'. |
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| Reverse lettering | Uniface com serial em preto e carimbo rosa |
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The Vorschuß-Verein — literally a "advance credit association" — was a cooperative lending society of the type that proliferated across provincial Germany in the Weimar inflation years. When Reichsbank notes became functionally worthless by late 1923, thousands of local bodies issued their own Notgeld to keep small commerce moving. Neuhaus an der Elbe, a minor river town in Lower Saxony, was precisely the kind of community where the cooperative's scrip would have circulated within a tight geographic radius and been redeemed quickly — or not at all.
At 50 × 38 mm, this is among the smallest Notgeld formats documented for the period.