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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Oberamtsstadt Rottenburg am Neckar |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink reverse with a matching dark brown scrollwork border and guilloche underprint. Two circular guilloche medallions at left and right each carry the numeral '50' above 'Pfennig', while a central rectangular vignette contains a woodcut-style grotesque mask with horns and open mouth, beneath which a motto in Gothic script reads 'Glücklich ist, wer vergißt, / Was nicht mehr zu ändern ist.' The validity notice 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921' appears at lower left and the counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung strafbar' at lower right, with the authority name 'Oberamtsstadt Rottenburg a.N.' split across the upper corners. |
| Reverse lettering | Oberamtsstadt Rottenburg a.N. 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921 Glücklich ist, wer vergißt, Was nicht mehr zu ändern ist. Nachahmung strafbar |
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Rottenburg am Neckar issued this Notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage of 1918, when Imperial Germany's coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded by the public or melted for the war effort. Municipal and district authorities across Württemberg were left to fill the gap themselves, producing locally authorized scrip that the Reichsbank tolerated but did not sanction.
Gebrüder Parcus of Munich were among the more prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling commissions from dozens of Bavarian and southern German issuers simultaneously. Their output for Rottenburg is unexceptional within the firm's broader run.