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50 Pfennig Konsumverein für Gera-Debschwitz und Umgegend
| Issuer | Konsumverein für Gera-Debschwitz und Umgegend, e.G.m.b.H. |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld voucher printed in black on a red-pink geometric diamond-pattern underprint over a buff ground, enclosed within a red rectangular border. The issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script appears across the upper margin, followed by the cooperative's legal designation; the central text in Fraktur announces the voucher series designation 'Gutschein Nr. B' with a serial number at upper right, and a framed denomination panel in the lower centre reads 'Werte von 50 Pfennig verabfolgt.' The lower-left corner carries the large abbreviated denomination '50 Pf.' in bold display type, while the lower-right panel repeats the issuer's name and closes with the authority legend 'Der Vorstand.' |
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| Obverse lettering | Konsumverein für Gera-Debschwitz und Umgegend eingetragene Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftpflicht Gutschein Nr. B In unseren sämtlichen Verkaufsstellen wird gegen diesen Gutschein Ware im Werte von 50 Pfennig verabfolgt. 50 Pf. Konsumverein für Gera-Debschwitz und Umgegend, e. G. m. b. H. Der Vorstand. |
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Gera-Debschwitz was a working-class suburb of Gera in Thuringia, and consumer cooperatives of this type — the *eingetragene Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftpflicht* form — were common fixtures of German industrial communities before and during the First World War. When small-denomination coin vanished from circulation after 1914, many such cooperatives issued their own Notgeld rather than lose retail trade to cash shortages. This piece is catalogued under Tieste's prisoner-of-war classification, which suggests it may have circulated in or around a camp facility rather than purely in civilian trade — though dual use was not uncommon.