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50 Pfennig Kaufmännischer Verein
| Issuer | Kaufmännischer Verein e.V., Gardelegen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kaufmännischer Verein e. V., Gardelegen. / Gutschein / über / 50 / Pfennig. / 50 / Pfennig. / Gültig bis 1. Januar 1922 / Gardelegen, den 1. Januar 1921. / Der Kaufmännische Verein. / Julius Könecke, Gardelegen. |
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| Signature(s) | Shmcke and Anter and Ragotky |
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Gardelegen's Kaufmännischer Verein — a merchants' association — was one of thousands of local commercial bodies across Weimar Germany that stepped in to print emergency notgeld when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation after the First World War. The Könecke press was a local operation; this note never left the district it was designed to serve.
Three signatories — Shmcke, Anter, and Ragotky — reflect the association's committee structure, a formality that gave these privately issued scrip pieces at least the appearance of institutional accountability during a period when that word meant very little.