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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreise Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land und des Siegkreises |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same brown tone on a dense guilloche underprint and carries a central oval vignette of the Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine at Cologne, with the cathedral towers visible at left and a river vessel in the foreground. The date '1918' appears in bold numerals both above and below the central vignette within decorative cartouches, and the numeral '50' is repeated in large form at the left and right margins within guilloche panels. |
| Reverse lettering | 1918 50 50 1918 |
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This note is a product of the German Notgeld system — emergency municipal and district currency issued when wartime metal shortages made small-denomination coinage functionally unavailable. By 1918, the Reichsbank had largely stopped defending the coinage supply at the local level, leaving administrative bodies like the combined districts of Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land, and Siegkreis to fill the gap themselves. Joint issuance across three distinct districts was practical rather than politically symbolic.
M. Dumont Schauberg, the Cologne press responsible for printing, was primarily a newspaper publisher — the firm behind the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Notgeld contracts were a wartime sideline, not their core trade.