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50 Pfennig Deutscher Guttemplerorden
| Issuer | Deutscher Guttemplerorden (I.O.G.T.), Hamburg |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note with a decorative letterpress border of interlocking zigzag motifs. The denomination '50 Fünfzig Pfennig 50' is set in bold Gothic (Fraktur) type at centre, above a two-line redemption text in smaller Fraktur script. A serial number box appears at top, with the issuer name and date 'Hamburg, den 1. April 1921' below the denomination, followed by three manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Gutschein I.O.G.T. |
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The Independent Order of Good Templars — a temperance fraternal organization with roots in upstate New York — maintained a substantial German membership base well into the Weimar period. This Hamburg branch scrip was issued during the acute small-change shortage of 1921, when municipal and commercial Notgeld flooded Germany at every denomination. Fraternal organizations, guilds, and private associations all issued their own emergency currency during this window, with varying degrees of official tolerance from the Reichsbank.
The DeNG 1#522.1 reference places this firmly within the documented German Notgeld corpus rather than in purely ephemeral territory — it was catalogued, which suggests sufficient surviving examples to warrant formal numismatic attention.