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50 Pfennig Dippoldiswalde
| Issuer | Kriegs-Hilfsausschuss Dippoldiswalde (War Relief Committee Dippoldiswalde) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegs- Hilfsausschuß Dippoldiswalde Die Waren sind stets zum vollen Werte der Marke aus hiesigen Geschäften zu entnehmen. Wertmarke zu 50 Pf. Die Marken werden am 14. und 28. jedes Monats vom Kriegs- Hilfsausschuss eingelöst (Translation: War Relief Committee Dippoldiswalde The goods must always be taken at full value of the token from local stores. Value token of 50 pfennigs. The tokens are redeemed by the War Relief Committee on the 14th and 28th of each month.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse bears a circular black intaglio-style official stamp of the Stadtrat zu Dippoldiswalde, enclosing the town's heraldic shield vignette with crossed branches and a haloed saint figure at the base, the legend 'STADTRAT ZU DIPPOLDISWALDE' running around the circumference. |
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Dippoldiswalde is a small Saxon town south of Dresden, and this 50 Pfennig piece is wartime Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued to address the coin shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward as metal was diverted to the war effort. The issuer, a locally-organized war relief committee rather than a municipal savings bank or chamber of commerce, is slightly unusual; most comparable Saxon Notgeld came from Stadtkassen or Sparkassen.
These small-denomination paper pieces circulated hyperlocally and were rarely accepted beyond the issuing town's immediate trading area.