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50 Pfennig Rabatt-Spar-Verein
| Issuer | Rabatt-Spar-Verein Vaethen-Tangerhütte |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Rabatt-Spar-Verein Vaethen-Tangerhütte 50 Pf. Die Gültigkeit erlischt drei Monate nach Bekanntgabe im hiesigen Anzeiger. Vaethen-Tangerhütte, 1. Aug. 1921. Rabatt-Spar-Verein ZIMMER & MUNTE, MAGDEBURG |
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| Reverse lettering | Rabatt-Spar-Verein Vaethen-Tangerhütte Altes Schloß Ausgabe II 50 Pf. Gut für fünfzig Pfs. Wenn es gelang, das Leben dir zu schmücken, lag's im Genuß, auch andre zu beglücken. |
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Rabatt-Spar-Verein translates roughly as "discount savings association" — a consumer cooperative model that spread widely across provincial Germany in the late nineteenth century and survived well into the Weimar inflation years by issuing its own scrip. The Vaethen-Tangerhütte branch served a community straddling two small settlements in the Stendal district of Saxony-Anhalt, and this 50 Pfennig note belongs to the wave of privately-issued Notgeld that flooded Germany in 1921 as small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation.
Zimmer & Munte of Magdeburg were a regional commercial printer, not a specialist securities house — which shows in the utilitarian production values typical of cooperative-issued scrip rather than municipal Notgeld.