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50 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Göppingen (City Municipality of Göppingen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Tan guilloche underprint across the entire field with a diamond lattice pattern and two circular rosettes flanking the centre. Bold Fraktur lettering at top reads the issuer name; large numeral '50' appears at left and right with 'Mark' in the centre. Validity and redemption clause printed at lower portion, with issuance date and a manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister at bottom right. A perforated cancellation overprint is visible across the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsnotgeld der Stadtgemeinde Göppingen 50 Mark 50 Dieser Schein ist bis 1. Februar 1919 gültig. Für die Einlösung haftet die Stadtgemeinde Göppingen. Ausgegeben im November 1918 Stadtschulth. Amt Oberbürgermeister (Translation: War emergency money of the city municipality of Göppingen 50 Marks 50 This note is valid until 1 February 1919. The city municipality of Göppingen is liable for its redemption. Issued in November 1918 City Treasurer's Office Mayor) |
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Göppingen issued this 50 Mark Notgeld in 1918, when the collapse of normal money supply forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency. The city sits in the Fils valley southwest of Ulm — industrial, mid-sized, with no particular monetary history before the war made improvisation necessary. Local printing was the rule rather than the exception for Württemberg Notgeld of this period, and Göppingen's issue follows that pattern.
The 50 Mark denomination places it at the higher end of municipal emergency issues from 1918, before hyperinflation made such figures meaningless within a few years.