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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Reichenbach (Lower Silesia) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress border with ornamental corner devices frames the central vignette, an oval guilloche panel in orange-gold tones bearing the large denomination numerals and letters 'PF. 50 PF.' in Gothic script. The upper legend reads 'Notgeld des Kreises Reichenbach i/Schl.' and below the vignette a validity clause states 'Gültig bis einen Monat nach Aufforderung.' The lower portion carries the issuing authority legend 'Der Kreisausschuss Reichenbach i/Schl.' followed by several manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Pfennige zahlt die Kreiskommunal-Kasse Reichenbach i/Schl. für diesen Gutschein aus. Reihe II No 100872 PF CARL FLEMMING u. C.T. WISKOTT A.-G. GLOSAU |
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Reichenbach in Lower Silesia was one of hundreds of German administrative districts that issued Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Kreisausschuss, the elected district committee, held the authority to authorize such emergency scrip locally, which is why German Notgeld of this type varies so wildly in design quality and print standards from one district to the next.
Carl Flemming u. C.T. Wiskott in Glogau printed a significant volume of Silesian Notgeld, and their output is generally among the more competently produced regional issues — cleaner registration, better ink saturation than many competitors working under the same wartime pressures.