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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Kreis-Ausschuss des Kreises Erkelenz |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kreis Erkelenz 1917 50 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von der Kreissparkasse Erkelenz nebst ihren Zweig- u. Annahmestellen, von der Kreiskommunalkasse und der Stadtkasse Erkelenz, sowie sämtlichen Gemeindekassen des Kreises Erkelenz in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung im Erkelenzer Kreisblatt. Für die Einlösung haftet der Kreis Erkelenz. Erkelenz, den 1. August 1917. Der Kreis-Ausschuss des Kreises Erkelenz. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 |
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Erkelenz is a small Rhineland district that, like hundreds of German administrative bodies, began issuing Notgeld in 1917 as the Imperial coinage system buckled under wartime metal requisitioning. The Kreis-Ausschuss — the district committee — had no printing authority in any formal monetary sense; these notes were emergency municipal scrip, tolerated rather than sanctioned by Berlin, and redeemable only within the issuing district.
The DeNG 5 reference places this squarely in the first wave of necessity issues, before the later 1920–1922 collector-targeted Notgeld flooded the market and made the earlier utilitarian pieces genuinely harder to source.