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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Salzwedel (City of Salzwedel) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse with a single violet-inked circular official stamp applied at centre, bearing a scenic vignette of Salzwedel within its inner field and an encircling legend reading 'Stadt Salzwedel' with additional text around the circumference. No printed design elements are present beyond this validation stamp. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Salzwedel's 1917 notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after the Reichsbank restricted small coin circulation — hoarding had stripped pfennig and mark coins from daily commerce within months of the war's outbreak. Cities, towns, and even individual businesses were authorized to fill the gap themselves, which is why the graphic quality and production standards of these issues vary so wildly. Salzwedel's is a local print job, modest by design.
The official stamp substitutes for any formal anti-counterfeiting measure — adequate for a town where everyone knew the issuing authority on sight, less reassuring in principle.