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50 Pfennig Hartung & Co.
| Issuer | Kaufhaus Hartung & Co., Kiel |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents three elegantly dressed female figures in fashionable early-twentieth-century attire flanking a detailed letterpress rendering of the Hartung & Co. department store building. The background carries a blue geometric cross-hatched underprint, with bold orange diagonal panels framing the composition on either side. Four denomination roundels marked '50' appear at each corner, and the issuer's name, telephone number, and street address are set in a curved legend across the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 50 PFENNIG 50 HARTUNG & Co. MODERNES KAUFHAUS HARTUNG & Co. KIEL FERNRUF 1267 HOLSTENSTR. 17 |
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Hartung & Co. was a department store in Kiel that issued this note during the Notgeld crisis of 1919, when chronic coin shortages forced municipalities, businesses, and private firms across Germany to print their own small-denomination scrip. Retailers were among the most pragmatic issuers — they needed change to function and couldn't wait for the Reichsbank to supply it.
Commercial Notgeld from private firms is considerably scarcer than municipal issues, simply because smaller print runs were ordered and far fewer survived outside the immediate locality.