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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Beckum |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 92.4 × 64.9 mm |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal format notgeld in brown and blue tones, framed by an ornate guilloche border with denomination numerals "50" repeated at all four corners. The upper portion carries the title inscription in Gothic blackletter script within a panelled heading. The central field is divided into three vertical panels: at left, a vignette of a multi-storey civic building rendered in fine letterpress engraving; at centre, the place name and date of issue above two manuscript signatures and an embossed circular official seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Beckum; at right, the city's heraldic coat of arms with decorative foliate surround. |
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| Reverse lettering | De Bieckumer Raothues-Püt. Gegen Einlieferung dieses GUTSCHEINES zahlt die Stadt BECKUM 50 Pf. Un es der nu de ganze Stranck Honk in den Püt herunner, Dao woudden Hans de Arms to iank, Et was auk gar kein Wunner. Seg, Mieke, gaoh naon Huögker hen Un hahl my eenen blaven Twän. Dat Wyf, dat leip in vuller Trott, Hans konn kuhm Aohm mehr krygen, He Jungens holt ju fast, ick mot Es in de Hände spygen He dait, un ehr he`n Baum wier pock, Dao laigens all int diepe Lock Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird |
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Beckum's municipal government issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German towns to print their own small-denomination scrip when coin shortages became critical in the final year of the war. The embossed seal — applied mechanically after printing — was the issuer's primary defense against counterfeiting, a modest but locally effective measure given that these notes rarely traveled far beyond the town itself.
Notgeld of this type was officially temporary, redeemable once the Reich restored normal coinage. Many never were.