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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 120 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned notgeld note printed in red, green, and gold, centred on a large heraldic vignette of the Lindenberg city arms — a crowned shield bearing a twin-towered Baroque church set within a foliate cartouche — flanked by the denomination numeral '50' in bold red at lower left and right. Gothic-script text to either side of the arms states the note's validity within the Stadtgemeinde and reserves the right to extend the redemption period to 1 January 1919. The issuer legend 'Magistrat der Stadt Lindenberg i. Allgäu' and date '1. Mai 1918' appear along the lower margin, accompanied by a manuscript signature above the designation 'rechtsf. Bürgermeister' and the printer's imprint 'Schwarz Lindenberg' at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Giltig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb der Stadtgemeinde bis 1. Jan. 1919 Verlängerung der Einlösefrist vorbehalten 50 50 Magistrat der Stadt Lindenberg i. Allgäu 1. Mai 1918 rechtsf. Bürgermeister SCHWARZ LINDENBERG |
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Lindenberg im Allgäu is a small hat-manufacturing town in Bavaria, and the Magistrat issued this note in 1918 as part of the Kleingeldersatz wave — the emergency small-change shortage that swept German municipalities as metal coinage vanished from circulation during the war. Local printing by Schwarz, a Lindenberg firm, was entirely standard for this class of Notgeld; the town was simply doing what hundreds of others were doing simultaneously.
Schiesta's design credit is worth noting. Heinz Schiesta was a regional graphic artist whose name appears on several Allgäu Notgeld issues of the period.