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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss Frankenberg (Eder) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | KREIS FRANKENBERG (EDER) 50 PFENNIG GÜLTIG BIS ZUR EINLÖSUNG. FRANKENBERG, 12. NOV. 1918. DER KREISAUSSCHUSS: FÜNFZIG PFENNIG |
| Reverse description | Printed in black on pale blue paper, the reverse carries a symmetrical guilloche underprint composed of two rosette lobes flanking the bold central denomination numeral '50', rendered in ornate letterpress with fine horizontal line infill, with the abbreviation 'PF.' set to each side. The issuer's title 'KREIS FRANKENBERG (EDER)' runs in bold type across the top, while 'GUTSCHEIN' appears at lower left and the serial number prefix 'No' with a six-digit numeral at lower right. The printer's imprint 'GEBR. PARCUS. MÜNCHEN' is set in small type along the bottom margin. |
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Frankenberg an der Eder is a small town in Hesse, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, its Kreisausschuss — the district committee — was forced to issue its own emergency currency as the imperial economy buckled under wartime conditions. The Reichsbank had long since lost control of small-denomination coin circulation; hoarding and metal shortages made Pfennig coinage functionally extinct in everyday trade.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled an enormous volume of Notgeld commissions during this period, which kept quality reasonably consistent even for minor rural issuers.