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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pale buff paper Notgeld voucher with the issuer's name 'Stadt Bad-Homburg v.d. Höhe' in large bold Gothic letterpress across the top, above the denomination legend 'GUTSCHEIN über FÜNFZIG PFENNIG' centered over a circular guilloche rosette underprint; large numeral '50' underprints flank the central text at both left and right margins. The lower portion carries the redemption clause in smaller Gothic type, with a red handstamped serial number at lower left, the place and date of issue centered, and a manuscript signature of the Magistrat at lower right. The printer's imprint 'C. Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt a/M.' appears at the bottom left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Bad-Homburg v.d.Höhe GUTSCHEIN über FÜNFZIG PFENNIG Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats bei der Stadtkasse zu Bad-Homburg v.d. Höhe eingelöst wird. Bad-Homburg v.d. Höhe, den 1. Juni 1917. Der Magistrat: C.Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt a/M. |
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Bad Homburg vor der Höhe was a Prussian spa town with a notably affluent reputation — home to one of Germany's earliest casinos and a favored resort of Kaiser Wilhelm II — which makes its 1917 municipal Notgeld issue a study in contrast: a wealthy town printing emergency scrip because the Imperial economy had consumed its small coinage. C. Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt was a workhorse municipal printer during the Notgeld period, handling issues for numerous Hessian and Rhenish towns simultaneously.
The 1917 wave of municipal 50-Pfennig issues preceded the more artistically ambitious Notgeld of 1920–21 by several years; these earlier pieces were functional stopgaps, not collector targets, and circulated hard.