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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Friedrichshafen (City of Friedrichshafen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Dieser Schein wird von allen Kassen der Stadt eingelöst. Gültig bis 1. August 1920. Für die bürgerlichen Kollegien Stadtschultheiß: Mayer |
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| Reverse lettering | Kriegsgeld der Stadt Friedrichshafen 50 Pfennig Carl Grüninger Nacht. Otto Klett, Stuttgart |
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Friedrichshafen's identity in 1920 was inseparable from the Zeppelin works, and the city's decision to issue Notgeld that year reflects how badly fractional coinage had dried up across postwar Germany — not local eccentricity, but a nationwide collapse in small-denomination coin supply that forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency scrip. Carl Grüninger Nachfolger Otto Klett was a well-regarded Stuttgart commercial printer with a substantial Notgeld output during this period, handling issues for numerous Württemberg municipalities.
The single signature, "Mayer," almost certainly corresponds to a senior municipal treasury official, though the exact individual is unrecorded in standard references.