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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bremen (City of Bremen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey guilloche underprint covers the entire field, with repeated lettering forming the border ornament. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is rendered in large ornate blackletter script across the centre, flanked by numeral '50' at each lower corner. The heading 'Stadt Bremen 1917' appears at the top in gothic typeface, with the serial prefix letter in red and the number in black below 'Gutschein über'. A red oval official seal of the Finanzdeputationis impressed at lower left, accompanied by two manuscript signatures above the issuer line 'Die Finanzdeputatiion:'. The date 'Bremen, den 15. Dezember 1917' is printed in the lower portion, with a cautionary redemption text in gothic script. |
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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. |
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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.