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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Itzehoe (City of Itzehoe) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed notgeld in black on grey guilloche underprint, with the denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" in large Gothic script at centre over a rosette vignette. Header reads "Stadt Itzehoe" flanked by "50 Pfg." at each corner; below, a four-line validity clause in Fraktur, date "Itzehoe, den 1. Oktober 1918", red serial number at lower left, and manuscript signature under "Der Magistrat." |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour pictorial reverse with a green foliate border. Left panel shows a standing figure of Charlemagne (Karl de Grote) with sword and orb, inscribed "Korl de Grote hett de Stadt gründt vun 810"; centre-right panel carries a panoramic vignette of Itzehoe viewed from the River Stör with a sailing vessel at anchor, surmounted by the city's heraldic shield. Denomination "50 Pfg." at lower right; town name "Itzehoe" in large red Gothic lettering along the bottom. |
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Itzehoe, a small Schleswig-Holstein market town, issued this 50 Pfennig note in 1918 as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities when Imperial authorities could no longer guarantee adequate coin circulation. The metal shortage by that point was severe — copper, nickel, and zinc had long been redirected to the war effort, leaving ordinary commercial transactions grinding against a shortage of small change.
W. Gente was a Hamburg commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house. That choice tells you something about how urgently these notes needed to exist.