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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Crefeld (City of Krefeld) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with a decorative border incorporating the denomination numeral '50' in each corner. The issuer's name 'Stadt Crefeld' appears in gothic blackletter script at the top, flanked by validity invalidation notices. The central field carries the voucher text in gothic type, with the large denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in ornate blackletter, followed by the date 'den 19. April 1917', a circular official stamp at left, the Oberbürgermeister's manuscript signature, and the serial letter and number line 'Buchstabe B Nr.' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Crefeld 50 50 |
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Krefeld's 1917 emergency currency — Kriegsgeld, in the vernacular of the period — was one of hundreds of municipal issues flooding the German economy as the imperial government's metal coinage disappeared into the war machine. Copper, nickel, and iron were requisitioned; cities and towns scrambled to fill the gap with locally authorized paper. Krefeld, a major Rhine textile center, issued its own series under municipal authority rather than waiting for centralized distribution.
The spelling "Crefeld" on the note reflects the older Prussian orthography, officially modernized to "Krefeld" only in 1929.