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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Crefeld (City of Krefeld) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Blue on cream paper Notgeld issued by Stadt Crefeld, dated 20 March 1919. The central text in Gothic script reads 'Fünfzig Pfennig' beneath the heading 'Gutschein über', with a guilloche underprint of repeated '50' numerals and city vignettes. Validity clause, serial letter and number in red at foot, with the Oberbürgermeister's facsimile signature at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Crefeld Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird bis spätestens zum 31. März 1921 von allen Kassen der Stadt Crefeld angenommen. Crefeld den 20. März 1919. Der Oberbürgermeister Buchstabe F Nr. |
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Krefeld's 1919 notgeld issue came out of the same municipal crisis hitting most mid-sized German industrial cities that year — the Reichsbank was hoarding coin and small-denomination paper, leaving city governments to fill the gap themselves. Worms & Lüthgen, a local Krefeld print house, handled the job in-house, which was unusual enough; most comparable cities contracted out to Leipzig or Berlin trade printers. The result is a note that looks exactly like what it is: a local solution to a local problem, printed quickly by people who knew the town better than any outside firm would.