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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Schutzverband für Handel und Gewerbe, Wittenberge |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pf Gutschein d. schutzverbandes für Handel u. Gewerbe Wittenberge wird urkundlich zuerst 1265 als stadt eewahnt Dieser gutschein ist öffentliches zahlungsmittel, Sondern gilt nur im derfehr mit unseren kunden. Er verliert seine Gültigfeit 3 monate nach Befanntgabe in den hiesigen zeitungen. Schutzverbandes für Handel u. Gewerbe. Gebr. Parcus München Offsetdruck (Translation: 50 Pfennig Voucher by Association to protect trade and industry Wittenberge first documented as city in 1265 This voucher is public money, But only applies to our customers. It loses its validity after 3 months Notification in the local newspapers. Protection association for trade and Business. Gebr. Parcus Munich Offset printing) |
| Reverse description | A large detailed architectural vignette of the Alter Turm (Old Tower) of Wittenberge fills the central field, rendered in a fine offset illustrative style with tonal yellow and grey washes against a clouded sky. The denomination '50 PF.' appears in bold red Gothic lettering within black panels at the lower left and lower right, with the town name 'Wittenberge' in large red Gothic script across the bottom. The title 'Alter Turm' is inscribed in a black label at the upper right of the vignette, and the whole composition is enclosed within a decorative chain-link border. |
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Wittenberge's Schutzverband für Handel und Gewerbe — a local merchants' and trades protection association — was among the countless civic and commercial bodies that stepped into the void left by Germany's acute small-denomination coin shortage during and immediately after the First World War. Notgeld of this type was a practical solution to a real problem: hoarding of metal coinage had stripped everyday transactions of their change.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich printed enormous volumes of municipal and corporate Notgeld during this period, supplying issuers across Germany from a single southern press operation. Their involvement here is entirely routine for the type.