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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Burghausen (City of Burghausen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a lithographed view of Burghausen Castle rising dramatically above the old town streetscape, rendered in brown and ochre tones against a clouded sky. At upper left, an oval cartouche within decorative scrollwork frames the Bavarian state coat of arms in red, white, and blue, while a corresponding cartouche at upper right bears the heraldic device of the city of Burghausen with its castle towers in red, blue, and green. The lower left panel contains the serial number and the validity notice in Gothic letterpress, while the lower right panel displays the denomination '50 PFENIGE' in bold block numerals. |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGSGELD DER K. BAYR. STADT BURGHAUSEN 1918. DRUCK SCHWARZ LINDENBERG H. S. |
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Burghausen's 1918 notgeld issue was one of thousands of municipal emergency notes that flooded southern Germany as the imperial monetary system buckled under wartime coin hoarding. Small denominations — especially the 5 and 10 Pfennig pieces — disappeared from circulation almost entirely by 1917, forcing towns to print their own substitutes or leave retailers unable to make change. J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu handled a significant volume of such commissions for Bavarian municipalities during this period.
The Schwarz firm's Allgäu location made it a practical choice for nearby towns; proximity cut both cost and delivery time in a period when neither was reliable.