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50 Pfennig

Issuer Stadt Tauberbischofsheim (City of Tauberbischofsheim)
Year 1918
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Value 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50)
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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.
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Reverse lettering 50
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50
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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.

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