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75 Pfennig Provinzialverband Westfalen Kriegsbeschädigter und Kriegerhinterbliebener
| Issuer | Provinzialverband Westfalen, Kriegsbeschädigter und Kriegerhinterbliebener, Bochum |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Provinzialverband Westfalen• Kriegsbeschädigter u. Kriegerhinterbliebener• No Gegen Einlieferung dieses Gutscheines zahlt die Siedlungskassenverwaltung des Provinzialverbandes 75 Bochum im Mai 1920 Der Vorstand Schafft Kriegerheimstätten! |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Provinzialverband Westfalen Kriegsbeschädigter u. Kriegerhinterbliebener 75 |
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The issuer here is not a bank or municipality but a welfare association — the Westphalian provincial association for war-disabled veterans and war widows, operating out of Bochum. In the chaotic small-change vacuum of the early Weimar years, organizations of this type were occasionally authorized to issue Notgeld, effectively printing their own fractional currency to facilitate day-to-day transactions their members could not otherwise manage.
That a veterans' welfare body was drawn into emergency currency issuance says something blunt about 1920 Germany: the state could not reliably supply coin, and the human wreckage of the war was still being administered by committees running on improvised paper.