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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Königliche Amtshauptmannschaft Löbau (Bezirksverband Löbau) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 82 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | Small-format wartime Gutschein (voucher note) with a double-ruled outer border enclosing an elaborate guilloche underprint of fan and shell motifs in blue. The large numeral '50' with Pfennig abbreviation appears at the top centre within a cartouche, above the bold letterpress legend 'FÜNFZIG PFENNIGE' and the issuing authority 'KÖNIGLICHE AMTSHAUPTMANNSCHAFT'. Validity conditions and redemption terms are set in smaller text in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unadorned reverse with a simple single-ruled rectangular border. The text 'KRIEGS-GUTSCHEIN DES BEZIRKSVERBANDES LÖBAU VOM JAHRE 1917' is printed in bold letterpress across the centre, below which the numeral '50' appears within a small dotted circular frame. |
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Löbau's district authority — the Königliche Amtshauptmannschaft — issued this note under the Saxony Notgeld framework that proliferated across Germany from 1916 onward as small-denomination coinage vanished into hoarding and metal requisition. The Bezirksverband designation places it within the administrative district association rather than a municipal or commercial issuer, which was a relatively uncommon arrangement; most Saxon Notgeld of this period came from individual towns or private firms.
1917 was peak production for German emergency paper at this fractional level. Survival rates are high — overprinting was common and redemption sporadic.