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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Goslar (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and tan letterpress notgeld voucher on plain paper with a stippled rectangular underprint frame; the central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Goslar with church steeples and rooftops above decorative foliage, flanked at upper left and right by the denomination numeral '50'. A broad ornamental ribbon scroll across the centre carries the issuer inscription 'Stadt Goslar', beneath which a multi-line text block states the validity conditions, the place and date of issue (Goslar, December 1918), and bears the manuscript countersignature of the Magistrat. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Gutschein 50 Stadt Goslar Dieser Gutschein ist gültig bis 1. Mai 1920 und wird von unserer Kämmereikasse eingelöst. Goslar, im Dezember 1918. Der Magistrat. Klinge. |
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Goslar's 1918 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipally authorized emergency small change, produced because the imperial government's wartime metal requisitions had effectively stripped copper and nickel coinage from everyday commerce. The Magistrat stepped in, as hundreds of German towns did that year, printing low-denomination scrip redeemable locally.
The Gra:G33.2c designation indicates a specific color or paper variant within the G33 series — Grabowski's Goslar listings distinguish several otherwise identical printings by these minor production differences. Collectors often find the variants bunched together in old lots, unchecked.