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50 Pfennig Volkshaus
| Issuer | Volkshaus Leipzig |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | VOLKSHAUS-GUTSCHEIN / im Werte von 50 Pfg. / Gültig bis 30. 6. 1922 / Dieser Gutschein wird im Volkshaus bei allen Einkäufen verrechnet. / Eine Bareinlösung dieses Gutscheines findet nicht statt. / "TROTZ ALLEDEM" / LEIPZIG / 50 |
| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green on cream paper, the reverse carries a stark central vignette of the Volkshaus building engulfed in flames, rendered in an expressive woodcut-like style with dramatic smoke and fire rising above the structure. The large bold headline 'HELFT UNS!' spans the full width at the top, with explanatory text panels flanking the vignette on left and right. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals at lower left and lower right, all framed within a dotted border. |
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Volkshaus Leipzig was a workers' cultural and social institution — the Volkshaus notes were notgeld issued to address the severe small-change shortage that paralyzed everyday transactions across Germany in 1922 as inflation accelerated ahead of the Reichsbank's ability to supply low-denomination coin and paper. Thousands of municipalities, companies, and institutions issued their own emergency scrip that year, but labor-affiliated organizations like the Volkshaus represent a distinct subcategory, circulating primarily within their own halls, canteens, and affiliated cooperative networks.
Leipzig was a significant center of the German labor movement, and the Volkshaus there was one of the larger such institutions in Saxony.