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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weilburg a.d. Lahn (City of Weilburg on the Lahn) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-orange note with an overall geometric guilloche underprint of repeating floral rosettes. At upper centre, the issuer title 'Stadt Weilburg a. d. Lahn' is set in bold blackletter type, with the word 'Gutschein' below and the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in large teal-green letterpress numerals and text over a teal guilloche panel. A red serial number prefixed 'No' appears vertically along the left margin, and a three-line redemption clause in German black type occupies the lower centre, above the place-and-date line 'Weilburg a. d. Lahn, 1. Juli 1917' and a manuscript signature for 'Der Magistrat'. The printer's imprint 'C. Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt a/M.' is present at the lower left. |
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| Signature(s) | Hartmann Erlenbach |
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Weilburg's 1917 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as small-denomination coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation — hoarded by the public and consumed by wartime metal demands. The city authorized these 50 Pfennig notes under the same municipal emergency powers exercised by hundreds of German towns that year, signing responsibility to local officials rather than any banking authority.
Carl Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt was a commercially active regional printer that took on substantial Notgeld contracts during the war years. The Erlenbach signature almost certainly represents a city treasurer or burgomaster-level functionary rather than a finance official in any modern institutional sense.