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10 Pfennig Waldmohr; Consum-Verein

Issuer Consum-Verein Waldmohr e.G.m.b.H.
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Obverse description Orange-tinted note with an all-over geometric lattice underprint enclosed within a double-rule border. Issuer name in Fraktur blackletter runs across the top; a central text panel states the voucher clause in letterpress, with the denomination in a ruled rectangular cartouche. Lower left carries the numeral value "10 Pf." and lower right repeats the issuer name and board attribution.
Obverse lettering Consum-Verein Waldmohr, e.G.m.b.H.
Gutschein Nr. D
Gegen diesen Gutschein verabfolgen wir Waren im Werte von 10 Pfennig.
10 Pf.
Consum-Verein Waldmohr
e.G.m.b.H.
Der Vorstand.
(Translation: Consumer Association Waldmohr, e.G.m.b.H.
Voucher No. D
Against this voucher we provide goods to the value of 10 Pfennig.
10 Pf.
Consumer Association Waldmohr
e.G.m.b.H.
The Board.)
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Waldmohr is a small town in the Palatinate, and like hundreds of similar communities across Germany, its consumer cooperative issued emergency small change — Kleingeldersatz — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Consum-Verein Waldmohr e.G.m.b.H. was a registered cooperative with limited liability, a legal structure common to workers' purchasing societies of the period, and its scrip was redeemable only within the cooperative's own retail operation, not as general local currency.

That restricted redemption is the detail that matters for survival rates: notes returned to the issuer were routinely destroyed once the coin supply normalized, making intact examples genuinely uncommon.

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