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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Tauberbischofsheim (City of Tauberbischofsheim) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei G.m.b.H., Stuttgart, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Kriegsgeld der Stadt Tauberbischofsheim dieser Geldschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen eingelöst Tauberbischofsheim den 19. Oktober 1918 Für den Gemeinderat der Bürgermeister Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei G. m. b. H., Stuttgart. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed predominantly in teal-blue with black line work, the entire field covered by an intricate Art Nouveau foliate and vine underprint. At centre, a pointed ogival cartouche frames a detailed letterpress vignette of the Tauberbischofsheim townscape, with the prominent church tower rising above closely packed rooftops against an open landscape horizon. The denomination '50' in Gothic script appears flanked by the word 'pfennig' at lower left and lower right within the decorative surround. |
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Tauberbischofsheim is a small administrative town in Baden, and this 1918 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz emergency — the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany as metal coinage disappeared into hoarding and war industry. Municipalities, businesses, and transit companies were authorized to fill the gap with locally issued Notgeld, and thousands did. Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei in Stuttgart handled a significant volume of this municipal work across Baden and Württemberg, producing notes for dozens of small issuers from essentially the same jobbing print infrastructure.
The series was never intended to outlast the war economy, and most were redeemed and pulped by 1919.