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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Darmstadt (City Treasury of Darmstadt) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on pale cream paper, the reverse presents a central rectangular vignette with a detailed topographic view of the Luisenplatz in Darmstadt, dominated by the tall Ludwig Column (Ludwigssäule) rising above surrounding civic buildings and tree-lined streets. The numeral '50' appears in bold at the left and right flanks of the vignette, set against an ornate side border of repeated floral and heraldic guilloche patterns incorporating the text 'STADT DARMSTADT 1917'. The printer's imprint 'Carl Schleicher & Schüll Duren' is printed in small type at the bottom margin below the central border. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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Darmstadt's municipal treasury entered the notgeld business in 1917 under the same pressure that pushed hundreds of German cities to do the same: the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions had essentially emptied circulation of small coinage. Carl Schleicher & Schüll in Düren, better known as a specialist paper manufacturer than a security printer, handled production for numerous municipal issuers during this period — their guilloche underprinting was a practical deterrent rather than high-security work.
The Stadtkasse series was redeemable only locally, and most examples that survived did so in collections rather than through circulation wear.