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75 Pfennig Provinzialverband Westfalen Kriegsbeschädigter und Kriegerhinterbliebener
| Issuer | Provinzialverband Westfalen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette divided into two scenes: at left, a woman greets two armed soldiers in field gear against a rural landscape with billowing clouds; at right, a uniformed soldier stands before a house accompanied by a woman holding a child. The denomination numeral "75" appears at centre top within a wreath, below the title inscription. The entire design is framed by a decorative border of red roses and green foliage rendered in letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein / Provinzialverband Westfalen / Bochum im Mai 1920 |
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The Provinzialverband Westfalen was the provincial welfare association responsible for disabled veterans and war widows in the Westphalia region — a body thrust into administrative chaos after 1918 as the Weimar Republic struggled to fund its obligations to roughly 2.7 million wounded German soldiers. This note is welfare scrip, not banking currency: it functioned within the provincial support system rather than general commerce, and was issued at a moment when hyperinflationary pressure was already eroding the purchasing power of official Reichsmark notes faster than benefits could be adjusted.
The 75 Pfennig denomination is unusual — odd fractional values in notgeld typically signal very specific local payment needs rather than convenience rounding.