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50 Pfennig Gerolstein, Eifeler Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Eifeler Verkehrsverein E.V., Gerolstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 82 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned notgeld on light paper, with the issuer's name EIFELER VERKEHRSVEREIN E.V. GEROLSTEIN arched across the top. A central circular vignette contains a detailed letterpress view of Burg Kerpen castle ruins, labelled KERPEN at its base, flanked by oak-leaf sprigs. The denomination appears in bold black cartouches at lower left (50) and lower right (PFG), with two columns of German text below the vignette; at lower left the date GEROLSTEIN, den 5. Dezember 1921 and three manuscript signatures for Vorsitzender, Schriftführer, and Kassierer appear above the printer's imprint SCHAAR & DATHE, TRIER. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed entirely in dark grey-black, dominated by a large oval vignette reproducing an 18th-century steel engraving of Blankenheim castle set on a wooded hill, with travellers and horses in the foreground landscape. The oval is enclosed within an ornate geometric guilloche border of interlocking diamond and cross motifs. The denomination numeral 50 appears in each of the four corners outside the border frame. |
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Gerolstein's notgeld was issued by the local tourism association — the Eifeler Verkehrsverein — rather than a municipality or savings bank, which was unusual even by the permissive standards of the 1921 kleingeldersatz boom. By that point German notgeld had shifted decisively from emergency scrip into a semi-commercial phenomenon, with issuers well aware that collectors were absorbing notes before they ever reached a cash register. Schaar & Dathe in Trier were a reliable regional printer for Rhineland series of this type.
Whether this note saw any genuine retail circulation in Gerolstein is doubtful.