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50 Pfennig Landkreis Bochum
| Issuer | Kreis-Ausschuss des Landkreises Bochum |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | LANDKREIS BOCHUM LANDKREIS LANGENDREER WEITMAR ALTENBOCHUM WERNE HARPEN GERTHE STOCKUM HORDEL SOMBORN RIEMKE BERGEN [AER] BLADENHORST DÜKEN CILKENBURG 50 Pfg. Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. Er wird bei der Kreiskommunalkasse und den Amts-Gemeinde- und Sparkassen des Kreises eingelöst. Der Kreis-Ausschuß des Landkreises Bochum Bochum, 1. November 1921 No 52345 P. A. GIMMERTHAL, LANGENDREER |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg. 50 In's Bergwerk 'nein, wo die Bergleute sein, die da graben das Silber und das Gold — bei der Nacht — aus Felsgestein. |
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Landkreis Bochum's notgeld issues of 1921 came directly from the district committee — the Kreis-Ausschuss — rather than from a municipal savings bank or chamber of commerce, which was the more common issuing route for Westphalian small-denomination emergency currency during the postwar coin shortage. The printer, F. A. Gimmerthal, operated out of Langendreer, then still a separate industrial township east of Bochum proper before its later incorporation into the city.
Gimmerthal's notgeld output was almost entirely local and regionally distributed, making these notes considerably less common in collector circuits than the heavily marketed series from larger specialist printers like Druck & Verlag.