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50 Pfennig Vorschuß-Verein
| Issuer | Vorschuß-Verein Zobten (Zobten am Berge, Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | A panoramic vignette of Zobten am Berge occupies the upper portion of the note, rendered in a lithographic style with a church steeple at left, the Zobtenberg hill in the centre background, and townscape with fields in the foreground. Below the vignette, a central town coat of arms appears flanked by two columns of German text stating the issuing authority and redemption conditions. The lower portion carries multiple facsimile signatures of the issuing committee, with the printer's imprint reading 'Druckerei Schenkalowsky, Breslau 5.' at the foot. The denomination '50' appears in bold at upper left and right corners, with a decorative green guilloche border surrounding the entire design. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZOBTEN a. BERGE Selbsthilfe der Bürgerschaft 16.10. 1919. Lützows Denkmal Bergkirche. Fünfzig Pfennige 50 |
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Zobten am Berge — now Sobótka in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian market town at the foot of the Ślęża massif. This 50 Pfennig note was issued by its local Vorschuß-Verein, a cooperative credit association of the type that spread across German-speaking central Europe following Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen's and Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch's organizing work in the mid-nineteenth century. By 1919, with the Reich deep in postwar monetary chaos and small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation, hundreds of such associations issued their own Notgeld to keep local commerce moving.
Printed by Schenkalowsky in Breslau, roughly 40 kilometers northeast.