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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad-Homburg vor der Höhe (City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey-green notgeld on plain paper with a central guilloche vignette framing the denomination text. The heading 'Stadt Bad-Homburg v. d. Höhe' is set in bold blackletter type across the top, below which 'GUTSCHEIN' and 'FÜNFZIG PFENNIG' appear in progressively larger letterpress type. Large numeral '50' underprints are visible at left and right in blue-green ink. A three-line validity clause in German script occupies the lower centre, with the issue date 'den 1. Juni 1917' and a manuscript signature on behalf of 'Der Magistrat' at lower right, alongside a red serial number prefixed 'No' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Bad-Homburg v. d. Höhe GUTSCHEIN über FÜNFZIG PFENNIG Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats bei der Stadtkasse zu Bad-Homburg v. d. Höhe eingelöst wird. Bad-Homburg v. d. Höhe, den 1. Juni 1917. Der Magistrat: C. Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt a/M. |
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Bad Homburg vor der Höhe — the Prussian spa town that gave Kaiser Wilhelm II his favored summer residence — issued this Kriegsnotgeld piece in 1917 as the wartime metal shortage made small-denomination coinage functionally disappear from circulation. Carl Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt handled the print run, one of dozens of municipal emergency issues the firm produced during the same period for towns across the region.
The issuing authority was the city administration itself, not a bank — a distinction that matters for redemption history, as municipal Notgeld carried no formal banking guarantee behind it.