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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Emden (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Emden 50 Pfennig zahlt die Stadtkasse in Emden dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines. Emden, den 15. Dezember 1918. Der Magistrat. |
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| Reverse lettering | S.M.S. Emden. 50 50 Carl Schleicher & Schull Duren. |
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Emden's 1918 Pfennig notes belong to the vast wave of Kommunales Notgeld that flooded Germany as the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime metal shortages. The Magistrat — the city's civic governing body — authorized this issue when small-change coinage had all but vanished from everyday transactions, hoarded or melted down faster than the Reichsbank could replace it.
Carl Schleicher & Schüll of Düren were among the more capable commercial printers handling Notgeld contracts at this period, and the underprint security feature here was a practical gesture toward forgery resistance in an environment where dozens of competing local issues were circulating simultaneously.