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50 Pfennigs Handelskammer
| Issuer | Handelskammer zu Saarbrücken (Chamber of Commerce Saarbrücken) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Size | 67 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Handelskammer zu Saarbrücken 50 |
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| Protection description | Wmk: Schuppen- scales |
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Saarbrücken's Chamber of Commerce began issuing Kleingeldscheine in 1916 as small-denomination metal coinage disappeared almost entirely from German circulation — hoarded by the public and consumed by wartime industry simultaneously. This 50 Pfennig piece is a local emergency response to that shortage, authorised under the municipal and commercial notgeld provisions that proliferated across the Reich from 1914 onward.
G. H. Schaur of Völklingen was a regional printer, not a security printing house, which makes the presence of a watermark noteworthy — more precaution than most comparable Handelskammer issues bothered with at this denomination.