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50 Pfennig Vorschuss-Verein
| Issuer | Vorschuss-Verein zu Putlitz e.G.m.u.H. |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink note with a decorative dark border of repeated geometric ornaments enclosing a pink guilloche underprint. Issuer name in Fraktur blackletter at top; denomination numeral '50' flanks the central text panel at left and right, with the value spelled out in large Fraktur script 'Fünfzig Pfennig'. Date, validity notice, and two manuscript signatures appear at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Vorschuss-Verein zu Putlitz eingetragene Genossenschaft * mit beschränkter Haftpflicht * (Translation: Advance-Association of Putlitz, registered cooperative, with limited liability) |
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The Vorschuss-Verein zu Putlitz was a cooperative credit union — the "e.G.m.u.H." suffix denoting a cooperative society with limited liability — operating in Putlitz, a small market town in the Prignitz district of Brandenburg. In 1918, with the German Reich's small-change coinage having essentially vanished from circulation due to wartime hoarding and metal requisition, thousands of local institutions across Germany issued emergency Kleingeldersatz notes under loosely supervised municipal authority. This is one of them.
Selmar Bayer was a Berlin printing house that handled substantial volumes of Notgeld work during this period, serving issuers across the Prussian provinces.