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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bremen (City of Bremen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in grey-blue tones on a dense guilloche underprint scattered with repeated numeral '50'. A central rectangular vignette presents a detailed line-engraved view of the Bremen Rathaus (Town Hall), the Gothic Renaissance civic landmark, set against a plain background. The heading 'Stadt Bremen 1917' is set in large blackletter type across the top, with the numeral '50' in large pale figures at each side of the vignette. A red oval stamp of the Finanzdeputatiion Bremen is impressed at lower centre, and a multi-line redemption text in gothic script runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt Bremen 1917 Dieser Gutschein wird in der Stadt Bremen von allen Bremischen Staatskassen in Zahlung genommen. fünf Mark oder im Nennwert baren Markbetrages werden kassenscheinen oder in Bar- Gutscheine im Nennwert von eines höheren durch fünf teilbar von der Generalkasse in Reichsdarlehnskassenscheinen eingelöst. |
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| Comments |
Bremen's 1917 Notgeld issue came out of the same wartime necessity that pushed hundreds of German municipalities into printing their own small-denomination emergency currency. The federal government's metal requisitions had gutted coin circulation by mid-war, and cities like Bremen were left to fill the gap themselves. Carl Schünemann was the obvious local choice — an established Bremen publishing and printing house with the equipment to turn around municipal jobs quickly.
The DeNG 5 series reference places this within the broader Notgeld cataloguing framework for city-issued Bremen pieces. Schünemann-printed Bremen Notgeld from this period occasionally shows variation in ink saturation across the run, a minor but consistent feature worth checking against other examples in the series.