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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weida (City of Weida, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and violet on a fine guilloche underprint, the obverse carries a scenic vignette at left presenting the silhouette of Osterburg castle tower rising above trees and rooftops against a clouded sky. To the right, the denomination '50 Pfennig' is set in bold blackletter type, below which the issuing legend 'Gutschein der Stadt Weida' and a redemption clause appear, with a facsimile signature above the title 'Der Bürgermeister'. The series letter 'H' is placed at upper right, and the four border margins bear a humorous aphoristic inscription identifying three landmarks of Weida. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also rendered in black and violet over a matching guilloche underprint, centres the town's heraldic coat of arms within an ornate cartouche surmounted by a palm tree crest. The numeral '50' and the word 'Pfennig' in large blackletter type flank the arms on the left and right, while the heading 'Gutschein der Stadt Weida' runs across the top. A two-line notice regarding the public announcement of the note's expiry date is inscribed along the lower margin. |
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Weida's 1918 emergency Kleingeld issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal notgeld, produced when wartime hoarding stripped small coins from circulation almost entirely. Thousands of German towns issued their own fractional notes that year under tacit central tolerance rather than formal authorization — a legal grey area that was never cleanly resolved.
The print date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a cataloging or misprint anomaly; that date is the day Berlin fell and Hitler died, by which point Weida was days from American occupation and no municipal printing operation was functioning.