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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Erfurt |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Red guilloche underprint covers the entire note, with the denomination numeral '50' printed in each corner. The central text in Gothic (Fraktur) blackletter script reads 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig', with the issuing authority, date, and two manuscript signatures below. The printer's imprint 'Faber Magdeburg' appears at the lower left, with a red serial number at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Erfurt, den 1. Mai 1917 Magistrat der Stadt Erfurt |
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Erfurt's municipal 50 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of German Kleingeldersatz — emergency small-change substitutes — that flooded into circulation after 1916, when metal coinage effectively vanished from everyday commerce. Hoarding, industrial demand for copper and nickel, and the sheer pace of wartime expenditure had stripped the lower denominations from public hands. Municipal authorities across Germany were left to fill the gap themselves.
Faber of Magdeburg was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which shows in the relatively modest production quality typical of smaller Notgeld contracts.