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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktmagistrat Ebersberg |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in black letterpress over a red guilloche underprint with a repeating text pattern reading 'Marktmagistrat Ebersberg'. The issuer's name 'MARKTMAGISTRAT EBERSBERG' is set across the top in bold capitals, while the central cartouche — framed by ornate scroll-work and flanked by two small five-pointed stars — carries the legend 'GUTSCHEIN über fünfzig Pfennige' with the numeral '50' in large red type overlapping the text, and the denomination '50' repeated in black at left and right. The date 'EBERSBERG, 15. DEZEMBER 1916' appears along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg.' below the outer border. |
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| Obverse lettering | MARKTMAGISTRAT EBERSBERG GUTSCHEIN über 50 fünfzig Pfennige EBERSBERG, 15. DEZEMBER 1916 J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. |
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Ebersberg is a small Bavarian market town southeast of Munich, and this 50 Pfennig note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward as metal was diverted to war production. Municipal authorities across the Reich were authorized to issue Notgeld to fill the gap left by vanishing coinage, and the Marktmagistrat — the market magistracy, the lowest rung of Bavarian civic administration — was among thousands of such bodies that took up the task.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a natural choice for Bavarian municipalities: a well-established regional press with the technical capacity to produce secure small-denomination paper at short notice during wartime constraints.