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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bingen (City of Bingen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green notgeld printed within a red and black ruled border frame, with the central vignette comprising a heraldic shield in blue and red bearing an armoured knight on horseback and a kneeling supplicant figure at lower right. Surrounding text in Gothic blackletter script carries the issuing authority, a validity clause restricting use to the Stadtbezirk, a counterfeiting penalty warning, the authorising city council resolution of 24 October 1918, and the mayor's facsimile signature. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' appears in large decorative lettering across the lower panel, with the printer's imprint of J. Maubach & Co. G.M.B.H. Frkfrt. A.M. at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green reverse within a red and black ruled border, centred on a finely rendered linear vignette of the historic riverside Kranen building at Bingen am Rhein, its rounded dome surmounted by a tall wooden crane arm with masts visible to the left. Flanking panels carry stylised grapevine foliage motifs with red fruit clusters, each enclosing a circular denomination numeral '50'. Gothic blackletter inscriptions read 'Kriegsnotgeld der Kreisstadt' across the upper margin and 'Bingen a. Rh. im Jahre 1918' across the lower panel. |
| Reverse lettering | Kriegsnotgeld der Kreisstadt 50 50 Bingen a. Rh. im Jahre 1918 |
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