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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress design on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative guilloche border with ornamental corner medallions bearing the Aachen eagle arms. The denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" is set in large Gothic script across the centre, above a multi-line text body stating acceptance conditions and liability of the Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen. Two red circular official seals with eagle vignettes flank the manuscript signature lines for the Oberbürgermeister and the Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses, with the issue date "Aachen, den 31. Oktober 1918" below and the year "1918" in a guilloche band at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT- UND LANDKREIS AACHEN Gutschein Nr. über Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von allen öffentlichen Kassen des Stadt- und Landkreises Aachen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den öffentlichen Zeitungen des Stadt- und Landkreises. Stadt- und Landkreis Aachen haften für die Einlösung. Der Oberbürgermeister: Der Vorsitzende des Kreisausschusses: I.B.: Aachen, den 31. Oktober 1918. 1918 Bachem, Köln. |
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Aachen notgeld from 1918 sits at the intersection of two crises: the wartime metal shortage that drove municipalities across Germany to issue emergency fractional currency, and the administrative peculiarity of Aachen's dual Stadt- und Landkreis authority, which meant both urban and rural administrations fell under a single issuing body. J. P. Bachem was a well-established Cologne Catholic publishing house — their involvement in municipal printing work during the war was a natural extension of their commercial print operation rather than any specialist banknote capacity.
The DeNG 5/6 cataloguing places this among the earliest documented Aachen issues for the series.