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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Städtische Sparkasse Königsberg in Franken |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in greyish-green ink on firm white paper with brown text. A lion rampant within a hexagonal vignette occupies the upper left corner, serving as the civic emblem of Königsberg in Franken. The denomination numeral '50' appears in each of the four corners, with the full text of the redeemability obligation and issuing authority set in letterpress across the body of the note. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Königsberg in Franken — a small Franconian town not to be confused with the Prussian city — issued this note through its municipal savings bank during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1918 as the war drained metal coinage from circulation. Blasius & Lauer Nachf. in nearby Schweinfurt was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, yet the inclusion of a watermark places this above the most rudimentary Notgeld issues of the period.
The reference suffix M2 suggests a second watermark variety within the K31 type — worth confirming against the DeNG listing before cataloging alongside the M1.