Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Pfennig Vereinigte Lichtspiele
| Issuer | Vereinigte Lichtspiele Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Vereinigte Lichtspiele Wilhelmshaven Rüstringen 50 50 PF Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den hiesigen Tageszeitungen. Er wird eingelöst an den Kassen der Vereinigten Lichtspiele. |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Vereinigte Lichtspiele — "United Picture Theaters" — was a cinema chain operating in the Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen area during the Weimar-era Notgeld proliferation. This 50 Pfennig piece belongs to the wave of emergency scrip issued by private commercial entities in the early 1920s when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions genuinely unworkable. A cinema chain issuing its own currency is less strange than it sounds — Notgeld issuers ranged from municipalities to breweries to single shopkeepers.
Druckerei AD Allmers in Varel was a regional press that handled multiple Notgeld contracts in Lower Saxony. The watermarked paper suggests this wasn't the cheapest production run available.