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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat zu Spremberg, City of Spremberg |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Printer | Julius Fiedler Nachfolger, Grünberg, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld (Kriegsgeld) on plain paper, with a fine guilloche-style border running the full perimeter. The denomination numeral '50' appears in bold gothic script at upper left and upper right, flanked by the heading 'Kriegsgeld' at centre top; a serial number is printed in black below the heading. The large gothic legend 'Fünfzig Pfennige' occupies the centre, above a two-line text authorising payment by the Stadthauptkasse Spremberg without identity verification. At lower left the issue date 'Spremberg i. Lausitz den 26. März 1917' is set in gothic type, while a circular official seal of the Magistrat zu Spremberg is affixed at centre bottom, flanked to the right by the authority line 'Der Magistrat' with two manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Kriegsgeld 50 Fünfzig Pfennige zahlt die Stadthauptkasse Spremberg i. Lausitz ohne Legitimationsprüfung dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Spremberg i. Lausitz den 26. März 1917. Der Magistrat |
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Spremberg's 1917 Notgeld issue belongs to the first major wave of municipal emergency currency in Germany, triggered by the wartime disappearance of small-denomination coins from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absorbed by a monetarily stressed population. The Magistrat, like hundreds of other municipal bodies that year, was left to fill the gap independently, with no standardized guidance from Berlin on format or security.
Julius Fiedler Nachfolger operated out of Grünberg in Silesia, a regional commercial printer with no particular specialization in security printing. That's typical of 1917 Notgeld — municipal necessity outran any concern for counterfeiting, since the notes' brief intended lifespan made sophisticated production unnecessary.