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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Nördlingen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | A central rectangular vignette presents a detailed woodcut-style illustration of the Daniel tower — Nördlingen's landmark medieval church tower — rising above a gate building and surrounding foliage, rendered in black. Green underprint panels with repeated "50 PF. NÖRDLINGEN PFENNIG" lettering border the composition on both sides. Validity text in Gothic script at lower left reads "gültig bis zum im Stadtbezirk", with the expiry date "31. Dezember 1919" and place name "Nördlingen" at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Droplet (Tropfen) watermark pattern |
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| Comments |
Nördlingen's municipal emergency money — Kriegsnotgeld — emerged from the same supply crisis that forced hundreds of German towns to print their own fractional notes when coin metal was diverted to the war effort. The Stadtmagistrat, the city's administrative council, had direct authority to issue these notes under wartime necessity provisions, which is why so many German small-denomination notes of 1917–1918 bear municipal rather than banking authority.
The watermark is notable for notgeld of this level — many comparable municipal issues skipped security features entirely, printing on whatever paper stock was available. Its presence here suggests the Stadtmagistrat drew on better-quality paper reserves, possibly pre-war stock.