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50 Pfennigs Kreis Neustadt in Westpreußen
| Issuer | Kreiskommunalkasse Neustadt in Westpreußen |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured note of typeset letterpress construction, enclosed within a fine serrated border running along all four edges. The denomination "Gutschein über 50 Pfg." is set in large Gothic blackletter at the top, followed by the issuing authority and place of payment in progressively smaller Gothic type. A circular magenta official stamp of the Powiat Wejherowski (Kreis Wejherowo) is applied at centre, overlapping the text, and bears a Prussian eagle vignette at its core. The date line and the dual authority lines — "Der Landrat" and "Der Rendant" — appear in the lower register. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 50 Pfg. Zahlbar bei der Kreiskommunalkasse in Neustadt Wpr. Neustadt Wpr., den 1. September 1914. Der Landrat. Der Rendant. |
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Neustadt in Westpreußen (now Wejherowo, Poland) issued this Notgeld in 1914, placing it among the earliest wave of emergency municipal money to appear in Germany — released in the weeks immediately following the August mobilization, when coin hoarding drained small change from circulation almost overnight. The Kreiskommunalkasse, the district communal treasury rather than a private bank, was the issuing body, which was typical of Prussian administrative practice but gives the note a more official character than most Kleingeldersatz of the period.
The district changed hands after Versailles, passing to the newly reconstituted Polish state under the terms that created the Polish Corridor.