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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Emmendingen (City Treasury of Emmendingen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld on white paper with an elaborate guilloche underprint forming the overall background. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner within ornate cartouches, while a faint shield watermark-style vignette is visible at centre. The main text, set in a bold Fraktur typeface, reads 'Fünfzig Pfennig' across the centre field, above the issuance date 'EMMENDINGEN, den 1. August 1917' and the issuing authority legend at top; two manuscript signatures appear at the foot beside the titles 'Bürgermeister' and 'Ratschreiber'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadtkasse Emmendingen zahlt gegen diesen Gutschein Fünfzig Pfennig EMMENDINGEN, den 1. August 1917 Der Gemeinderat: Bürgermeister Ratschreiber |
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Emmendingen's 1917 Kleingeldschein belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany after small coins vanished from circulation — hoarded by a public who understood that metal had intrinsic value and paper did not. By mid-1917, over three thousand German municipalities had resorted to printing their own fractional notes, making most issues from this period common in the absolute sense, though individual town issues can be surprisingly difficult to locate today.
The Stadtkasse, not a bank, was the issuing body — a civic treasury function that had no business printing currency under normal circumstances. That administrative awkwardness is itself the story here.