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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Nauheim (City of Bad Nauheim) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Bad-Nauheim GUTSCHEIN über Fünfzig Pfennig Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bei der Stadtkasse Bad-Nauheim. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Der Bürgermeister: BAD-NAUHEIM, den 1. Juni 1917. C. Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt a/M. |
| Reverse description | Pale blue reverse printed entirely in a single-colour letterpress on a geometric guilloche background of fine repeating diamond and floral patterns. At centre, an ornate cartouche with scalloped and scrollwork borders frames a detailed landscape vignette of the Bad Nauheim Kurhaus, rendered in fine line engraving with trees, terraced gardens, and surrounding parkland. The label 'KURHAUS' is inscribed within the vignette at upper right. |
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Bad Nauheim's 1917 Notgeld issue came out of the same wartime necessity that pushed hundreds of German municipalities into emergency currency production. The Reichsbank had effectively hoarded metal coinage — brass, nickel, even copper — for the war economy, leaving small-denomination transactions without a practical medium. Cities printed their own.
Carl Naumann's Frankfurt press had been operating since 1821 and handled a significant volume of regional Notgeld contracts during the war years, supplying multiple Hessian municipalities. The firm closed in 1926, well after the inflation emergency had subsided.