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75 Pfennig Provinzialverband Westfalen Kriegsbeschädigter und Kriegerhinterbliebener
| Issuer | Provinzialverband Westfalen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Provinzialverband Westfalen Kriegsbeschädigter u. Krieger hinterbliebener. No. 019840 Gegen Einlieferung dieses Gutscheines zahlt die Siedlungskassenverwaltung des Provinzialverbandes 75₰ Bochum im Mai 1920 Der Vorstand. Schafft Krieger heimstätten! (Translation: Voucher — Provincial Association of Westphalia for Disabled Veterans and Families of Deceased Soldiers. No. 019840 — In exchange for this voucher, the Settlement Cash Office of the Provincial Association will pay 75 Pfennig — Bochum, May 1920 — The Board of Directors. Create homes for veterans!) |
| Reverse description | To the left, a woman with a cane; at center, a man on crutches stands before a radiant sun motif; to the right, a mother with children stands beside a house. The composition conveys a thematic narrative of post-war hardship and social rehabilitation, rendered in a flat illustrative style characteristic of Westphalian Notgeld vignette art of the early 1920s. The reverse carries the abbreviated association title inscription. |
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The Provinzialverband Westfalen was not a bank but a provincial welfare body — its primary postwar function was administering support for war-disabled veterans and the dependents of those killed in action. That this organization issued notgeld at all reflects how thoroughly the 1919–1923 small-change crisis penetrated German civil administration: virtually any entity with a printing contract and a rubber stamp entered the currency vacuum.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is among the more unusual in Westphalian notgeld, sitting between the common 50 and 1-Mark values that dominated local emergency issues.