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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rendsburg (City of Rendsburg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink and dark brown Notgeld note with a typographic layout on a cross-hatched guilloche underprint. The heading GUTSCHEIN spans the upper register, below which the denomination FÜNFZIG PFENNIG appears in bold blackletter flanking a central circular medallion bearing the numeral 50 / PF. on a stippled ground. Redemption text occupies two columns on either side of the medallion, with the issuer line RENDSBURG 1 JULI 1918 at the foot above four manuscript signatures over the titles BÜRGERMEISTER, SENATOR, STADTV·VORST., and STADTVUST·STVTR. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN FÜNFZIG PFENNIG 50 PF. ZAHLT DER SPAR·VOR·SCHVEREIN RENDSBURG JEDERZEIT WENN DIESER SCHEIN SPÄTE·STENS INNER HALB EINES MONATS NACH ERFOLGTER ÖFFENTL·AUFFORDERUNG DES MAGI·STRATS EINGE·LIEFERT WIRD RENDSBURG 1 JULI 1918 BÜRGERMEISTER / SENATOR / STADTV·VORST. / STADTVUST·STVTR. |
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Rendsburg's 1918 Kleingeldscheine emerged from the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany as the war economy absorbed copper, nickel, and zinc. Municipal authorities across the Reich were authorized to issue low-denomination emergency paper — Notgeld in the strictest sense — to keep small transactions functioning when official coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation.
Rendsburg sits at the junction of the Kiel Canal and the Schleswig-Holstein interior, a garrison town with sustained commercial activity that made the shortage genuinely disruptive rather than merely inconvenient. The city's 50 Pfennig issue was a practical stop-gap, not a commemorative exercise — the decorative Notgeld craze came later, in 1921–22.