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50 Pfennig Bank für Handel und Industrie
| Issuer | Bank für Handel und Industrie, Niederlassung Greiz |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two registers: on the left, an engraved vignette within an ornate cartouche depicts a gateway and tower of a Greiz castle or municipal building framed by decorative floral borders, with the denomination numeral '50' in a dark octagonal panel below. To the right, the denomination is inscribed in bold Gothic blackletter script as 'Fünfzig Pfennig' beneath the voucher legend 'Gutschein über', followed by the issuer name, place, date of 1 January 1919, and a manuscript signature. The header reads 'Bank für Handel und Industrie / Niederlassung Greiz' in red letterpress, with corner denomination squares in blue. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bank für Handel und Industrie Niederlassung Greiz. Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Bank für Handel und Industrie Niederlassung Greiz d. 1. Januar 1919 Gültig nur im Stadtbezirk Greiz bis Ende 1920 50 |
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The Bank für Handel und Industrie was a major German commercial bank — the Darmstädter Bank, as it was commonly known — but this note came not from the Frankfurt or Berlin headquarters, but from the Greiz branch, a small industrial town in the Thuringian Vogtland. Branch-level Notgeld issues from named commercial banks are considerably less common than municipal emergency notes, and the Greiz connection places this squarely in the wave of small-denomination paper flooding the region after wartime coin hoarding stripped the country of circulating metal.
Löffler & Co. were a local Greiz firm, which kept production close — unusual for a bank of this institutional standing.