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50 Pfennig Vereinigte Lichtspiele
| Issuer | Vereinigte Lichtspiele Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen |
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| 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. WERBE-HAUS KARL WELGE WILHELMSHAVEN DRUCK AD ALLMERS VAREL |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a woodcut-style vignette in pink, green, and black, rendered in a medieval graphic idiom, showing a group of grieving women kneeling on grass before a waterway with a vessel in the background, accompanied by a departing armoured soldier at left. Scrolling ribbon banners interspersed throughout the composition bear verses in Gothic script evoking Hamburg's citizens and mourning maidens. The serial number is printed in black in the upper right corner. |
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Vereinigte Lichtspiele — "United Cinemas" — was a cinema chain operating in the twin municipalities of Wilhelmshaven and Rüstringen on Germany's North Sea coast. This notgeld piece was issued during the hyperinflationary Kleingeldenot of the early 1920s, when small-denomination coin effectively vanished from circulation and local businesses, municipalities, and institutions flooded the market with their own emergency scrip to make change. A cinema issuing its own currency is unusual even by the eccentric standards of German notgeld.
The watermarked paper and Allmers printing suggest this was produced to a reasonable standard for the type. Varel, a small town roughly 40 kilometers from Wilhelmshaven, hosted several notgeld printers serving the regional market during this period.