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50 Pfennig Gustav Ramelow
| Issuer | Gustav Ramelow (private merchant notgeld), Salzwedel, Prussian Province of Saxony |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld voucher on cream paper with rounded corners, printed in black letterpress throughout. The word 'Gutschein' appears at the top in a decorative Gothic banner framed by ornamental hatching, followed by a serial number below. The denomination 'Fünfzig 50 Pfennig' is rendered in large mixed Gothic and Roman typefaces at centre, with the numeral 50 set in bold. A ruled rectangular text panel below carries the redemption conditions in Kurrent script, closing with the date 'Salzwedel, 1. März 1921' and the manuscript-style printed signatures of Gustav Ramelow and H. Klockmann. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein No 07412 Fünfzig 50 Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird jeder Zeit an meiner Kasse in Zahlung genommen oder bar eingelöst, er verliert seine Gültigkeit zwei Monate nach erfolgter Aufforderung in den hiesigen Zeitungen. Salzwedel, 1. März 1921 Gustav Ramelow H. Klockmann (Translation: Voucher No 07412 Fifty 50 Pfennig This voucher can be used as payment or redeemed for cash at my cash desk at any time. It loses its validity two months after the relevant announcement in the local newspapers. Salzwedel, 1 March 1921 Gustav Ramelow H. Klockmann) |
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Gustav Ramelow was a private merchant in Salzwedel who issued this 50 Pfennig note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s — a shortage caused less by hyperinflation, which had not yet peaked, than by coin hoarding and the collapse of public confidence in the Reichsmark's stability. Merchant-issued notgeld of this type occupied a legally ambiguous position; technically prohibited under earlier emergency legislation, such private scrip was quietly tolerated at the local level when municipal issuers could not keep pace with demand.
Salzwedel, a small market town in the Altmark, produced notgeld from several issuers during this period. Ramelow's issue is among the more obscure private examples from the region.