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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Marburg (City of Marburg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| In circulation to | 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT MARBURG DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT WENN ER NICHT INNERHALB EINES MONATS NACH ERFOLGTER ÖFFENTLICHER AUFFORDERUNG DES MAGISTRATS BEI DER STADTH AUPTKASSE ZU MARBURG EINGELÖST WIRD. DER MAGISTRAT MARBURG, DEN 5. JULI 1918. 50 FÜNFZIG PFENNIG |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and red on a white ground, with the same heart-and-tulip guilloche underprint in red. A central framed vignette in bold woodcut-style illustration shows a mounted knight in full armour bearing a lance and a heraldic banner, with a shield charged with the Hessian lion. Circular medallions at lower left and lower right each carry the rampant Hessian lion in red and black. The word 'GUTSCHEIN' is inscribed beneath the central vignette, a serial number appears at the top, and the legend 'REIHE IV · 1921.' runs along the lower margin. |
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Marburg's 1918 50 Pfennig Notgeld was a necessity, not a civic vanity project. The wartime metal shortage that stripped Germany's small change from daily commerce forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency scrip, and Marburg was among them. The city had legal authority to issue but no obligation to redeem beyond its own borders, which kept most examples in tight local circulation and helps explain why surviving pieces tend to show honest wear.
The Telmon engraving credit is worth noting — K. Telmon was an active commercial engraver working in this period whose name appears on several regional Notgeld issues, suggesting the city contracted out the intaglio work rather than using a purely typographic print shop.