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50 Pfennig W. Limberg & Co.
| Issuer | W. Limberg & Co. Glashüttenwerke Gifhorn |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der W. Limberg & Co. Glashüttenwerke Gifhorn über den Betrag von 50 Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Dieser Gutschein wird, wenn in Beträgen von 1 Mark an auf einmal eingereicht, durch Auszahlung des Geldwertes in bar eingelöst. Derselbe verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht spätestens drei Monate nach öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgezeigt wird. Gifhorn, 1. März 1920. ppr. W. Limberg & Co. |
| Reverse description | Printed in grey-brown on pale paper, the reverse is dominated by a panoramic line-engraved vignette of the Limberg & Co. glassworks complex at Gifhorn, rendered in fine detail with factory buildings, tall smoking chimneys, and surrounding grounds. The issuer's name 'W. Limberg & Co.' is set in large Gothic script across the upper margin, with 'Gifhorn, Prov. Hannover' in matching script along the lower edge, while the denomination numeral '50' is repeated in each corner within the guilloche border frame. |
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Gifhorn's Glashüttenwerke — a glassworks operation — issuing its own emergency currency is precisely the kind of industrial Notgeld story that gets overlooked in favor of the more collectible municipal series. During the 1919–1922 small-change crisis, private firms across Germany printed scrip to pay wages when coin simply wasn't available. J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover, primarily a stationery and printing house with deep regional roots, handled a steady volume of this workaday corporate Notgeld — functional jobs, not prestige commissions.
The Gifhorn glassworks series attracted little collector attention at the time of issue, which means surviving examples were rarely set aside deliberately.