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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Nürnberg und Stadtmagistrat Fürth |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| In circulation to | 1 February 1919 |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff paper Notgeld voucher printed in grey-brown letterpress. The upper portion carries the series designation and serial number within a ruled cartouche, below which the issuing authority is rendered in ornate Kurrent script. A large underprint numeral '50' in Gothic style occupies the centre, overlaid by the denomination in words and a redemption clause in cursive script stating redeemability at all municipal cashiers of Nürnberg and Fürth until 1 February 1919. The lower section is divided into three panels bearing the date 'Am 23. Oktober 1918' flanked by the manuscript signatures of the two city magistrates. |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie I. No [serial number] Gutschein der Städte Nürnberg und Fürths über Fünfzig Pfennige Dieser Gutschein wird bei sämtlichen städtischen Kassen in Nürnberg und Fürth bis 1. Februar 1919 eingelöst. Stadtmagistrat Nürnberg Am 23. Oktober 1918 Stadtmagistrat Fürth |
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A joint issue by the magistrates of two neighboring Bavarian cities — Nürnberg and Fürth — rather than a single municipal authority, which was unusual even by the loose standards of German wartime Kleingeld. By 1918, the chronic shortage of small coinage had pushed hundreds of German towns into emergency paper issuance, but cooperative inter-municipal notes of this kind remained rare. The practical motivation was almost certainly shared printing costs at a moment when civic budgets were under severe strain from four years of war.
The Nürnberg-Fürth tramway line, one of the oldest electric railways in Germany, had already linked the two cities since 1881 — the same administrative intimacy that likely made joint issuance politically straightforward.