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50 Pfennigs Gerolstein, Eifeler Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Eifeler Verkehrsverein E.V. Gerolstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Schaar & Dathe, Trier, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central vignette reproducing an 18th-century steel engraving of the town of Daun, showing a castle complex on the left, figures in the foreground, and a large tree to the right, rendered in fine intaglio-style line work. A solid dark border with geometric and lozenge ornamental bands frames all four sides, with the numeral '50' repeated in each corner. A caption below the vignette identifies the scene. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Daun, nach einem Stahlstich aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. |
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Gerolstein's Eifeler Verkehrsverein — a regional tourism and transport promotion association — was among the more unusual issuers of Notgeld, producing emergency currency less out of genuine coin shortage and more as a collector-targeted side venture. By 1921 the Notgeld craze had fully tipped into Serienscheine territory, where small associations, municipalities, and civic groups printed attractive small notes knowing philatelists would snap them up and never spend them. Schaar & Dathe in Trier were active printers throughout the Rhineland Notgeld boom and handled numerous such commissions for regional clients.