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50 Pfennige
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Zeven |
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| Size | 85 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on a red-orange underprint, with large decorative '50' numerals and 'Pfg' abbreviations set within ornamental vertical panels on both left and right margins. The central field bears the title 'Gutschein' in elaborate Gothic blackletter script at the top, followed by an individual serial number, the denomination spelled out in large blackletter as 'Fünfzig Pfennige', and a three-line redemption text in Gothic script naming the savings banks of Zeven, Wilstedt, and Sittensen. At the lower left, the issuing authority 'Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Zeven' is inscribed, with a manuscript signature and the designation 'Kgl. Sandrat' at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein No [Individual Serial Number] über Fünfzig Pfennige Dieser Gutschein wird bei den Sparkassen Zeven, Wilstedt und Sittensen in Zahlung genommen. Der Kreisausschuß des Kreises Zeven Kgl. Sandrat |
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Zeven is a small administrative district in Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of German Kreise during the First World War, its county committee — the Kreisausschuss — was authorized to issue emergency Kleingeld to compensate for the hoarding and disappearance of metal coinage after 1914. These local Notgeld issues were stopgap instruments, not banking products, and they circulated within a tightly bounded area where the issuer's name carried enough local authority to sustain confidence.
The Kreis Zeven series is minor even by Notgeld standards — unremarkable within the broader flood of wartime German municipal paper.