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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Wildungen (Waldeck-Pyrmont), Gemeindevorstand |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned notgeld voucher on cream paper, framed by a lace-pattern guilloche border with denomination numeral 50 in each corner. The upper field carries the issuer title in Gothic blackletter script, below which a large ornamental 50 Pfennig value numeral occupies the centre, flanked on the left by a six-pointed star vignette within a decorative cartouche. A banner at the foot bears the redemption clause in letterpress, and the date 'Bad Wildungen, den 18. Oktober 1918' appears above two manuscript signatures with the rubric 'der Gemeindevorstand'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same brown ink on a cream ground, enclosed by a matching guilloche lace border with the numeral 50 in each corner and a six-pointed star vignette at upper left and upper right. The upper portion carries a four-line devotional quotation in Gothic script attributed to Hufeland 1832, beneath which a large landscape vignette presents a photographic-style view of the Bad Wildungen spa colonnade with promenading figures set against a wooded hillside. |
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Bad Wildungen's Gemeindevorstand issued this note in 1918 under the emergency currency provisions that swept through German municipalities as the imperial economy buckled under wartime strain. Thousands of German towns and districts produced their own Kleingeldersatz that year — small-denomination paper to compensate for the disappearance of metal coinage, which had been requisitioned for the war effort. Bad Wildungen, a spa town in Waldeck-Pyrmont, was among the smaller issuers, which tends to keep surviving quantities low relative to the major urban series.
Waldeck-Pyrmont itself would not formally merge with Prussia until 1929.