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50 Pfennig Rabattvereinigung
| Issuer | Rabattvereinigung Altusried |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light grey-green note with an ornate letterpress-printed border composed of scrollwork corner pieces and a thin double-rule frame. The issuer name 'Rabattvereinigung Altusried.' appears at the top in Roman type above a horizontal rule, with the text 'Gutschein über' in Fraktur script below. The large numeral '50' is centred, followed by 'fünfzig Pfennige.' in Fraktur, and the validity clause 'Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1918.' beneath; the printer's imprint appears in small type at the foot. |
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| Protection description | Hand-stamped or typeset serial number with series letter on lined background; note declared invalid if the number is incomplete. |
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Altusried is a small Bavarian market town in the Allgäu, and this note is about as local as emergency currency gets. The Rabattvereinigung — a retailers' discount association — was among the more unusual issuers of German Notgeld, operating not as a municipality or savings bank but as a merchants' cooperative using scrip to keep trade circulating within the local commercial network during the currency chaos of the early 1920s.
Printed by Laner & Co. in the same town, the production chain never left Altusried. Serial numbering was the sole concession to formality.