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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Pfarrkirchen (City of Pfarrkirchen an der Rott) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within a large decorative laurel and ribbon wreath shows a harness-racing driver in a sulky drawn by a trotting horse, rendered in a polychrome lithographic style signed by the artist Carl Gurdan at upper right. Denomination panels reading "Fünfzig Pfennig" in Gothic script occupy the upper-left and upper-right corners, flanked by two circular cartouches bearing the red numeral "50" on a green ground. Lower-left text in cursive script advises redemption at the Städtische Sparkasse Pfarrkirchen, while the lower-right carries the validity clause and a facsimile signature of the Stadtmagistrat; the printer's imprint "GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN." appears in red below the frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Pfarrkirchener Kriegsgeld. |
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Pfarrkirchen an der Rott is a small Bavarian market town, and its 1918 Notgeld issue was a direct response to the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany as the war drained metal from circulation. Municipal authorities across Bavaria — down to quite minor administrative centers — were authorized to issue these emergency pfennig notes, and the Stadtmagistrat acted accordingly. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich was among the more established Bavarian printers handling such commissions, serving numerous local issuers simultaneously during this period.