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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Aschaffenburg |
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| Designer(s) | Heinz and Schiestl |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a bishop in full ecclesiastical vestments and mitre, rendered in a bold woodcut style, holding the Mainz wheel coat of arms (red shield with silver wheel) to his left and the Bavarian lozenge shield to his right, with a gilt halo behind his head. Scroll banners at upper left and right carry the inscription "Notgeld" and "der Stadt" respectively, while the denomination numeral "50" appears in large red figures at lower left and right. Below the central figure, the city name "Aschaffenburg" is set in large red Fraktur lettering, with the serial number at lower left and the issuing authority "Stadtrat" with a facsimile signature at lower right; the artist signatures "Heinz" and "Schiestl" appear at mid-left and mid-right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Gültig bis auf Widerruf Aschaffenburg Stadtrat 50 |
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Aschaffenburg's Stadtrat issued this Notgeld note during the post-WWI currency emergency, when German municipalities scrambled to produce small-denomination scrip to cover the chronic shortage of fractional coinage. The Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz AG in Würzburg was a natural choice — an established academic press with the technical capability most town councils simply couldn't access locally.
The design credit to Heinz and Schiestl points toward Matthäus Schiestl, a Würzburg-based artist who contributed to several Bavarian Notgeld series during this period. His involvement was typical of the regional printing networks that gave South German emergency money a noticeably higher artistic standard than equivalent issues from the north.