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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Itzehoe (City of Itzehoe) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on white paper with a diamond-pattern guilloche underprint and a bold outer border of interlocking ornamental dots. A central vignette of the Itzehoe town gate or tower appears in the upper middle area, flanked by the denomination '50 Pfg.' in Gothic blackletter at both upper corners. Below the issuer heading 'Stadt Itzehoe' the note carries the obligation text 'Anweisung auf die Stadt Itzehoe für Fünfzig Pfennig' in large Gothic script, followed by a validity clause, the issue date 'Itzehoe, den 15. Mai 1917', a manuscript serial number, and a cursive authorisation signature above the imprint 'Druck: Selmar Bayer, Berlin S.O. 36'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and plain white, showing only a faint impression of the obverse text visible as a ghost image through the thin paper stock. |
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Itzehoe's 1917 Notgeld issue belongs to the first systematic wave of municipal emergency money in Germany, prompted by the wartime hoarding of metal coinage after 1914. The Reichsbank effectively sanctioned this municipal stop-gap rather than admit publicly that the coin shortage had become unmanageable. Selmar Bayer, operating out of Berlin's Kreuzberg district, was among the smaller commercial printers who picked up these municipal contracts — practical jobbing work, not prestige commissions.
The Stadt Itzehoe series is not among the elaborately illustrated Notgeld that collectors chase. Straightforward wartime utility printing.