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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Limburg an der Lahn (City of Limburg an der Lahn) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld on cream paper within an ornate geometric border with corner pieces each bearing the denomination numeral '50'. The municipal arms of Limburg an der Lahn — a shield with castle motif — appear at upper centre, flanked by the issuer inscription in Gothic blackletter script, above the bold Gothic denomination '50 Pfennig 50' set over a light guilloche underprint with the serial number printed in red. The lower portion carries the validity clause, redemption terms, place-and-date line reading 'Limburg den 1. November 1918', and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister for Der Magistrat. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 50 50 P. ASSMANN C. NAUMANN'S DRUCKEREI FRANKFURT A/M |
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Limburg an der Lahn was one of hundreds of German municipalities that began issuing Notgeld in 1918 as the wartime economy strangled the supply of small-denomination coinage. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped releasing fractional currency for civilian use, leaving cities to print their own stop-gap issues. C. Naumann's Druckerei in Frankfurt was a commercial job printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which is why the production quality on these municipal notes varies considerably even within a single series.
Designer P. Assmann is credited on this issue — relatively uncommon for Notgeld, where designer attribution was frequently omitted entirely.