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1/2 Mark 50 PFG
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bautzen (City of Bautzen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Dieser Gutschein über 1/2 Mark in bar wird bis zum 31. Dezember 1918 zum vollen Werte bei allen Kassen der Stadt und bei den hiesigen Banken in Zahlung genommen. Die Stadtgemeinde Bautzen haftet für Einlösung. Nur gültig im Bezirk der Stadt Bautzen. Bautzen, 1. April 1918 Der Stadtrat. Oberbürgermeister |
| Reverse description | Vertical-format note printed in blue on a pale ground with a repeated shield underprint. The central rectangular vignette renders a panoramic view of Bautzen's historic skyline, with the tall cylindrical Alte Wasserkunst tower dominating the left and a Gothic church spire rising to its right, the ensemble mirrored in a river foreground. The denomination '1/2 MARK' occupies a decorated panel at the top and '50 PF.' a matching ornamental panel at the bottom, both bordered by geometric guilloche bands, with the printer's imprint 'ADOLF FORKER LEIPZIG' lettered along the lower margin. |
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Bautzen's 1918 Kleingeldscheine were a direct response to the acute small-change shortage that plagued German municipalities as the war drained metal coinage from circulation. Stadtgemeinde Bautzen — the civil municipal authority, distinct from any banking institution — issued these fractional notes under emergency provisions that allowed local governments to substitute paper for Pfennig and Mark coins. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer with no particular banknote pedigree, which places this firmly in the pragmatic, locally-contracted tier of German Notgeld production rather than the decorative collector-oriented issues that followed in 1920–21.