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50 Pfennig Gewerbeverein
| Issuer | Gewerbeverein Prüm E.V. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfg GEWERBEVEREIN PRÜM E.V. mit dem Sitze in Prüm. Alle Mitglieder des Vereins sind verpflichtet, diesen Gutschein von 50 Pfennig in Zahlung zu nehmen. Prüm, den 1. Mai 1921. Der Vorstand: Vorsitzender: Schriftführer: Kassierer: Drei Monate nach Bekanntmachung im amtlichen Kreisblatt verliert dieser Schein seine Gültigkeit. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same brown-black tone, dominated by a large oval vignette with a fine-line engraved panoramic view of the town of Prüm-Eifel, labelled 'Stadt Prüm-Eifel Luftkurort' at the upper interior edge, with the twin-spired abbey church visible at left. The numeral '50' appears in bold at both upper corners against a lightly ruled ground. Below the vignette, a four-line patriotic verse in Gothic script references the Rhine and the Eifelland, enclosed within the decorative border. |
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Prüm is a small town in the Eifel region of western Germany, and its Gewerbeverein — a local trade and commerce association — issued this 50 Pfennig note during the notgeld wave of 1921, when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from everyday transactions. Trade associations issuing their own scrip was not unusual in this period, but it carried an implicit risk: acceptance depended entirely on local trust in the issuing body, not any state guarantee.
Three signatures — Johanntges, Hoppe, and Müller — suggest a committee-authorized issue rather than a single officer's instrument, a procedural formality that lent the note at least the appearance of institutional weight.