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| Uitgever | Rotes Kreuz Stadt- und Landkreis Helmstedt (Red Cross, City and District of Helmstedt) |
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| Jaar | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is printed in black, red, and yellow in the same Expressionist letterpress style. A panoramic silhouette of an Upper Silesian industrial skyline — with blast furnaces, mine headframes, and factory chimneys set against a bright yellow sky — occupies the full width of the note. The denomination numeral "50" in large white figures with the abbreviation "Pf." appears at lower right, while the date "24.12.21." is inscribed at upper left and a designer's monogram "Lu" at upper right. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | 24.12.21. OBERSCHLESIEN DEUTSCH 50 PF. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Helmstedt's Red Cross branch was among dozens of German welfare and municipal organizations that issued emergency scrip during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early 1920s, when small-denomination coin had effectively disappeared from circulation. This particular issue is unusual in that the issuer was a charitable body rather than a municipality or savings institution — the Rotes Kreuz acting as a quasi-monetary authority out of practical necessity, not mandate.
Notgeld of this type was redeemable in theory but rarely was.