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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Daun (District Committee of Daun) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | KREIS DAUN 50 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird vom Kreise Daun durch die Kreisgemeindekasse in Zahlung genommen. Der allgemeine Einlösungstermin tritt drei Monate nach vorheriger Bekanntgabe im Dauner Kreisblatt ein. DAUN, den 20. Februar 1920. Der Kreisausschuss: |
| Reverse description | The upper two-thirds of the reverse are occupied by a finely engraved landscape vignette — the Toten Maar lake near Daun, with rolling Eifel hills, a church spire amid trees, and a large boulder in the foreground — executed in the style of F. v. Wille whose facsimile signature appears at lower left of the vignette. Below the scene the caption "AM TOTEN MAAR BEI DAUN." is inscribed, followed by a decorative panel bearing the large numeral "50" interwoven with oak and fern foliage, enclosing the Latin motto "EIFLIAM NESCIT QUI DUNAM IGNORAT." A secondary legend at the foot reads "DOCH MEIDE ES JEDER, DER'S HAMSTERN VORHAT.", with the printer's imprint "Carl Schleicher & Schüll Duren" at the very bottom. |
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Daun is a small administrative district in the Eifel region of the Rhineland, and this note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of the Reichsbank's inability to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage after the war. District-level committees, not banks, became de facto issuers of circulating currency. The Kreisausschuss had neither printing infrastructure nor expertise, so the work went to Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren, a firm primarily known for filter paper manufacture that had sideline capacity in specialty printing.
The 50 Pfennig denomination was among the most common in notgeld issues, targeting the daily transaction range where coin shortages bit hardest.