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50 Pfennig Freiwillige Sanitätskolonne vom Roten Kreuz
| Issuer | Freiwillige Sanitätskolonne vom Roten Kreuz, Naunhof |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 95 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD / DER / FREIWILLIGEN SANITÄTSKOLONNE / VOM ROTEN KREUZ ZU NAUNHOF / NAUNHOF, 26. JUNI 1921 / Dieser Schein gilt nur im Verkehr der Mitglieder untereinander, wird aber auch im Vereinslokale der Schlossmühle in Naunhof, Mühlgasse 24, bei Entnahme von Speisen und Getränken in Zahlung genommen; er verliert mit dem 31. Dezember 1921 seine Gültigkeit. / SERIE F / VORSITZENDER / KASSIERER / 50 PFG |
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| Reverse lettering | EDEL SEI DER MENSCH HÜLFREICH U. GUT / FREIW. SANITÄTSKOLONNE V. ROTEN KREUZ NAUNHOF |
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Naunhof is a small Saxon town southeast of Leipzig, and this 50 Pfennig note was issued in 1921 by the local volunteer Red Cross medical corps — not a municipality, savings bank, or chamber of commerce, but a first-aid organization covering its own operating costs through notgeld. That is genuinely unusual. The vast majority of German emergency currency issuers were civil or commercial bodies; a Sanitätskolonne issuing its own scrip reflects both the financial chaos of the inflation period and the degree to which even minor civic organizations were forced to improvise liquidity.