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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Altötting, City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD ALTÖTTING 50 PFENNIG No 23979 DER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GILTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTL. BEKANNTGABE. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and ochre-yellow on cream paper within an elaborate decorative border incorporating putti figures at the upper corners and cornucopia motifs at the lower corners. A central octagonal frame with a pearl-bead border encloses a finely engraved vignette of the Altötting town hall with its distinctive Baroque onion-domed tower, flanked by text panels bearing the issuing authority inscription and denomination. The printer's imprint appears below the lower border. |
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Altötting is one of Bavaria's most important Catholic pilgrimage sites, and the city's decision to issue notgeld in 1918 reflects the near-total breakdown of small-change availability during the final year of the war — Reichsbank coin had essentially vanished from everyday commerce as metal was diverted to military use. J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a regional printer responsible for notgeld issues across several small Bavarian and Swabian municipalities during this period, which accounts for the shared production quality across similarly referenced DeNG series.
Paper condition on this type is frequently compromised by the high circulation demands placed on low-denomination notgeld in market towns.