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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Ettenheim |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow guilloche underprint with a pale dotted field forms the background, against which a blue-grey panoramic silhouette vignette of the Ettenheim townscape with church steeples runs across the lower half. The denomination numeral "50" appears in large bold black Fraktur type at each of the four corners, while the central text in ornate Fraktur script gives the issuer name, voucher designation, and denomination in full. Below the townscape vignette, the date "Ettenheim, den 12. Juli 1918" is printed above two manuscript facsimile signatures accompanied by the titles "Bürgermeister" and "Ratschreiberin", with a validity notice in small Fraktur script along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Ettenheim. Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Ettenheim, den 12. Juli 1918. Der Gemeinderat: Bürgermeister Ratschreiberin. Der Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach erfolgter öffentlicher Auskundigung. |
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Ettenheim is a small town in Baden, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918–1919, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — subsidiary coinage substitutes — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coins from circulation. The wartime hoarding of copper and nickel had left ordinary commercial transactions nearly impossible at the small-change level, forcing local authorities to print their own fractional paper.
These municipal Notgeld issues were technically illegal under Imperial German currency law but were tolerated out of necessity. Ettenheim's series is among the more obscure Baden examples, with documentation on exact issue quantities essentially nonexistent.