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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eschweiler (City of Eschweiler) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on a light blue guilloche underprint, framed by ornamental borders with the denomination numeral '50' repeated in each corner. The upper register bears the issuer's name 'Stadt Eschweiler' in bold letterpress, while the city arms — a crowned shield bearing a lion rampant — appear to the left of the central text panel. The main legend declares the voucher value as 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in Gothic script, accompanied by a validity clause and the issue date 'Eschweiler, 1. Oktober 1918', with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on a light blue guilloche underprint with repeating geometric lattice patterns filling the central field, framed by ornamental borders repeating the denomination numeral '50' in each corner. The entire centre is occupied by a patriotic motto in Gothic blackletter script across two lines, with no further vignettes or decorative elements beyond the border ornamentation. |
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Eschweiler's 1918 Kleingeldersatz note was issued to address the acute small-coin shortage that gripped German municipalities from 1917 onward — silver and nickel had long since been diverted to war production, leaving everyday transactions in towns like this Rhineland coal-mining center functionally stranded without fractional currency. Hundreds of German cities and towns issued their own emergency Pfennig denominations under similar circumstances, but the sheer volume of local variation means individual municipal issues are frequently conflated or miscatalogued.
Eschweiler's coal industry, centered on the Aachener Revier, kept the town economically active through the war years, which likely sustained local demand for exactly this kind of small-denomination scrip well into 1918.