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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Hanau |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Orange underprint with black letterpress text on white paper. The Hanau municipal coat of arms appears in a large central seal, with a smaller red stamp impression bearing the same arms at lower left. A black serial number is printed on the face alongside the denomination and voucher text. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 50 Stadt Hanau. Gutschein. Funfzig Pfennig 50 50 |
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Hanau's municipal government began issuing Notgeld in 1917 as the German imperial wartime economy drained metal coinage from circulation entirely. The Magistrat had no banking infrastructure of its own — these notes were a civic stopgap, authorized under emergency powers and backed by nothing more formal than local administrative credibility.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich printed a substantial volume of municipal emergency issues during the war years, making them one of the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period. Their work for Hanau is competent but unremarkable within the firm's output.