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50 Pfennig Kreis Greifenhagen
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Greifenhagen (Kreis Greifenhagen, Pomerania) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey speckled ground within a double-rule border, with the issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script at top. A large central denomination numeral '50 Pf.' dominates the field, flanked by the validity clause 'Gültig bis Aufruf' in smaller script. The denomination in words 'Fünfzig Pfennig', issue date, and a manuscript signature of the Kreisausschuss appear in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fiddichow Greifenhagen Bahn 50 Pf. Kreis Greifenhagen |
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Greifenhagen was a small rural Kreis on the right bank of the Oder, south of Stettin, and like hundreds of German administrative districts in 1917 it issued its own emergency currency because the Imperial government had effectively ceased supplying adequate coin for everyday transactions — wartime metal requisitions had gutted the circulating stock of nickel and copper. The Kreisausschuss, the elected district committee, was among the lowest tiers of government authorized to issue Notgeld, which partly explains the modest local print run from H. Susenbeth, a Stettin commercial printer with no specialized banknote background.
Small-town Pomeranian Notgeld from 1917 saw heavy daily use and survives in fine condition only rarely.