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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Berchtesgaden (Market Town of Berchtesgaden) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-toned notgeld voucher with an elaborate dark brown scrollwork border enclosing a guilloche underprint in pale blue-green bearing repeated denomination numerals '50'. A serial number box is positioned at the top centre. The issuer's name in Fraktur script appears below the serial box, followed by the large central legend 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig' and the issue date 'Am 18. Juli 1917', with the validating authority 'Magistrat Berchtesgaden' and a manuscript initials below. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Berchtesgaden's 1917 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Bavaria as small coins vanished from circulation — hoarded by civilians and consumed by the war economy simultaneously. The Magistrat issued these under the same legal framework that permitted hundreds of German municipalities to produce their own fractional paper, a stopgap the Reichsbank tolerated with visible reluctance.
The official stamp is the sole security measure, which tells you something about the trust radius of this money: it was never meant to travel far or last long.