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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Nördlingen |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The centre of the reverse carries a rectangular vignette with a line-engraved view of one of Nördlingen's medieval town gates, a stout round tower with a pointed roof and an arched gateway flanked by trees, with a church steeple visible in the background. The denomination '50 pfennig' in Gothic blackletter is printed in large format on both lateral panels, each set within a teal guilloche cartouche repeating 'NÖRDLINGEN 50 PF.'. The validity clause 'gültig bis zum 31. Dezember 1919 im Stadtbezirk Nördlingen' is distributed across the lower left and right panels. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 50 pfennig gültig bis zum im Stadtbezirk fünfzig Pfennig 50 pfennig 31. Dezember 1919 Nördlingen |
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Nördlingen's municipal authority issued this Kleingeldschein in 1918 as small change grew nearly impossible to source — wartime hoarding of metal coinage had gutted circulation across Germany, forcing hundreds of local bodies to print their own fractional notes. The Stadtmagistrat had legal cover to do so under emergency provisions, but the notes were always intended as strictly local instruments, redeemable only within the town.
Nördlingen sits inside one of Europe's best-preserved meteorite craters, a geological quirk that gave the town's medieval walls their distinctive suevite stone construction — though the notes themselves carry no trace of that local pride.