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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hildesheim (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed within an Art Nouveau border of interlaced scrollwork and geometric dot patterns, with the corner numeral '50' repeated in each angle. A ruled header panel carries the legend 'KRIEGSNOTGELD DER STADT' above a Gothic-script denomination line 'Fünfzig Pfennig' set over a fine guilloche underprint. The lower portion presents a four-line redemption text in antiqua typeface, dated 'Hildesheim, den 18. Oktober 1918,' with the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' accompanied by a manuscript signature and the town name 'HILDESHEIM' in bold capitals within a ruled panel at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black over a warm ochre-tan underprint and framed by an elaborate border of stylised floral rosettes, dot-work, and scrolled corner motifs, the reverse carries the numeral '50' in circled cartouches at each corner. A central octagonal vignette presents an engraved view of the Alte Münze (Old Mint) in Hildesheim, rendered in a detailed line technique with trees and a cobbled street in the foreground, captioned 'ALTE MÜNZE' divided above and below the octagon. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' appears in bold antiqua type to the left and right of the vignette, with the printer's imprint 'J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER' in small type at the lower margin. |
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Hildesheim's Magistrat issued this note in 1918 under the emergency currency provisions that had by then become routine across German municipalities — the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate small-denomination coinage in wartime forced thousands of local authorities to print their own Notgeld. J. C. König & Ebhardt, a Hanover firm with deep roots in commercial printing and bookbinding, handled a substantial volume of this municipal emergency work throughout Lower Saxony.
The 50 Pfennig denomination was among the most actively circulated of the Hildesheim series, worn down in everyday transactions while metal coinage remained scarce.