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50 Pfennig Vorschuß- und Sparverein
| Issuer | Vorschuß- und Sparverein E.G.m.u.H. zu Lutter am Barenberge |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff paper note printed entirely in black letterpress within a decorative scrollwork border. The denomination '50 Pfg.' appears in boxed panels at upper left and upper right flanking the town name 'Lutter a. Brge.' in Gothic script. The central text block, set in Fraktur typeface, carries the order of payment inscription, the denomination in large display script, the name of the issuing cooperative society, the place and date of issue (1 May 1917), the validity deadline, and two authorized signatories of the board. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfg. | Lutter a. Brge. | Anweisung über | Fünfzig Pfennig | auf den | Vorschuß- und Sparverein | E. G. m. u. H. zu Lutter a. Barenberge. | Lutter a. Brge., den 1. Mai 1917. | Der Vorstand: Lüttge. Ritter. | Gültig bis 1. Oktober 1919. |
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Lutter am Barenberge is a small town in Lower Saxony, and the Vorschuß- und Sparverein — a cooperative credit and savings association — was among the thousands of local German institutions pressed into emergency currency issuance during the First World War as coinage all but vanished from circulation. These Notgeld issues were explicitly temporary, authorized under wartime necessity rather than through normal monetary channels. The two signatories, Lüttge and Ritter, were almost certainly the association's board officers at the time of issue, as was customary for cooperative-issued Notgeld.
Paper quality on surviving examples from small cooperative issuers of this period tends to vary considerably, since printing was often contracted locally rather than to specialist security printers.