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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Sankt Goarshausen (City of Sankt Goarshausen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt St. Goarshausen 50 Pfennig No Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Der Magistrat. Bürgermeister Beigeordneter |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-grey ink on light paper with a fine guilloche background. A central rectangular vignette presents a panoramic landscape view of Burg Katz castle perched above the Rhine valley, labelled 'BURG KATZ' at the top of the vignette. Flanking the central scene, the denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in large Gothic numerals and script on both the left and right sides, while two heraldic shields — each bearing a rampant lion — are positioned in the lower corners. The town name 'Stadt St. Goarshausen' is rendered in large Gothic script along the lower margin. |
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Sankt Goarshausen sits directly on the Rhine at the foot of the Loreley rock, and like hundreds of small German municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency notes — Notgeld — when wartime coin shortages made small-change transactions nearly impossible after 1914. The city issues are catalogued under multiple varieties, and the Grabowski/Mehl reference S13.1d identifies this as a specific sub-variety within the 1917–1922 Notgeld period, distinguished likely by a signature, date, or serial configuration from its siblings in the series.
Vaters 6415.05.04 confirms collector recognition of distinct printings. Municipal Notgeld from small Rhineland towns circulated heavily and was rarely preserved carefully — most survivors show significant handling.