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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neuwied (City of Neuwied) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT NEUWIED GUTSCHEIN über 50 Pfennig 50 Neuwied, den 31. Oktober 1918 Der Bürgermeister: M. DUMONT SCHAUBERG, KÖLN |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in pink-red on plain paper, the reverse carries an elaborate guilloche border of interlocking wave patterns framing the central panel. Two ornate rosette vignettes flank a central cartouche surmounted by a small crown motif, within which the redemption text is set in letterpress. No denomination figures appear on this side. |
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Neuwied's 1918–1919 Notgeld issue belongs to the first major wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as the Imperial government lost its grip on coin supply during the war's final year. Local authorities across the Rhineland scrambled to fill the vacuum left by hoarded metal coinage, and Stadt Neuwied contracted M. Dumont Schauberg — a Cologne publishing and printing house with deep roots in the Rhenish press trade — rather than a specialist security printer.
That choice was common for small-denomination Notgeld and explains the variability in paper quality found across surviving examples of this series.