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50 Pfennig Gewerbeverein
| Issuer | Gewerbeverein Prüm E.V. |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-brown and black notgeld note with an ornate scrollwork border enclosing the entire design. A central vignette presents a line-engraved view of the Bischöfliches Konvikt (episcopal boarding school) in Prüm, captioned above in small type. The denomination numerals '50' appear in large gilt figures at left and the abbreviation 'Pfg' at right, flanking the vignette. Below, the issuer's name and legal obligation text are set in bold and italic letterpress type, dated 'Prüm, den 23. Juni 1921', with five manuscript board signatures and a validity clause at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zur Erinnerung an das 1200 jährige Jubiläum der Abtei und Stadt Prüm 721-1921 50 50 Zu uns'rer Heimat Brüder bring' Grüsse über den Rhein! Kommst ohne Zoll nicht hinüber, dann wirf sie nur hinein; Die Wellen werden sie tragen an einen deutschen Strand, Und von deren Treue sagen, die da wohnen im Eifelland. |
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The Gewerbeverein Prüm — a local merchants' and tradesmen's association in the small Eifel town of Prüm — issued this notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Municipal and commercial bodies across the Rhineland and Eifel filled the vacuum when official coinage disappeared from circulation, hoarded against rampant inflation. A tradesmen's guild issuing its own scrip was entirely typical of this moment; the notes functioned as trade tokens redeemable within the local merchant network.
The DeNG reference places this within the documented notgeld corpus, though survival rates for Prüm issues are uneven — the town is remote enough that organized collection was patchy.