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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Büdingen (District Committee of Büdingen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground covered with a light tan arabesque guilloche underprint of scrolling foliate motifs. A serif serial number is printed at the top centre. The main text block, set in Fraktur script, states the redemption conditions and bears the issue date and place of Büdingen, 1 November 1918, followed by the authorising legend 'Für den Kreisausschuss:' and a manuscript signature. |
| Reverse lettering | No [serial number] Dieser Schein kann bei der Kreiskasse in Büdingen eingelöst werden. Von wann ab er nicht mehr gilt, wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Büdingen, den 1. November 1918. Für den Kreisausschuss: |
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Büdingen's 1918 50 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency issued during the acute coin shortage that developed as the German war economy hoarded metal for military use. District committees like the Kreisausschuss had no traditional authority to issue currency — they acted out of local necessity, filling a gap the Reichsbank simply could not address at the retail level.
Büdingen itself is a small Hessian town, and the district's issue was modest in scale. These hyper-local notgeld pieces were rarely retained outside their issuing area, which cuts both ways on survival rates.