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50 Pfennig Sport-Verein 09
| Issuer | Sport-Verein 09 Corbach |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a panoramic town view of Corbach in Waldeck, with church steeples and red-roofed buildings; the club coat of arms appears upper left and the club badge upper right. The denomination "50 Pfg" is printed vertically at right within a blue-and-white striped panel, and a scroll at lower centre bears the Gut-Schein text with issue date and two manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sport-Verein 09 Corbach Corbach i. Waldeck 50 Pfg Gültig bei allen Veranstaltungen des Vereins bis 3. 30. Sept. 1922 Gut-Schein Corbach den 1. Febr. 1922 |
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German Notgeld issued by sports clubs is uncommon even within the broader 1921–1923 emergency currency wave. Sport-Verein 09 Corbach — a club from the small Waldeck town then spelled "Corbach," later standardized as Korbach — almost certainly issued this note to raise funds directly, a common practice among civic organizations during the hyperinflation spiral when cash liquidity was collapsing faster than wages could be paid. Louis Koch of Halberstadt produced small-run Notgeld for numerous minor issuers across central Germany during this period.