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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Wriezen (City Municipality of Wriezen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein hat Gültigkeit bis zum 31. Dezember 1921 · Die Stadtgemeinde Wriezen haftet für die Einlösung · Wriezen, den 20. August 1919 · Der Magistrat: Fünfzig Pfennig |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Wriezen 50 · PFENNIG · Adolf Farker, Leipzig |
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Wriezen is a small market town on the Oder plain east of Berlin, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1919, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to address the catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage that followed the war. The Reichsbank simply could not produce enough fractional currency to meet everyday demand, so local authorities, businesses, and even individual firms stepped in. Adolf Farker was a Leipzig commercial printer with no particular distinction in the engraving trade; the results were functional rather than artistic.
The signature of Haase almost certainly refers to a municipal official rather than a bank signatory — Wriezen had no independent banking authority of its own.