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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Emmerich (City of Emmerich) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency currency) voucher printed in brown and black on cream paper, with a decorative border of fine saw-tooth and scroll ornament. The denomination 'Fünfzig' is rendered in large Gothic script on a scroll vignette at centre, with 'Pfennig' below and the numeral '50' repeated at left and right. A text block in Kurrent script states the redemption conditions, giving the place and date 'Emmerich, den 15. November 1918', followed by the legend 'Der Bürgermeister' with a manuscript signature. At lower left, a circular embossed stamp reads 'Siegel der Stadt Emmerich' around the municipal arms. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown and black on cream paper with a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint filling the field. The municipal coat of arms of Emmerich — a shield charged with a fortified gate and two towers — is centrally placed, flanked symmetrically by two circular cartouches each bearing the denomination '50 Pfg.' in bold Gothic numerals and lettering. A serial number appears at top centre. At the base, a rectangular panel carries the city name 'Emmerich.' in large black Fraktur lettering, flanked by foliate ornamental blocks. |
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Emmerich, a Rhine crossing town on the Dutch-German border, issued this 50 Pfennig Notgeld in 1918 under the same wartime pressures that drove hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency small-denomination paper — the shortage of metal coinage had become acute by the middle of the war, with copper and nickel diverted to military production. Municipal authorities were authorized to fill the gap locally, and most issues were backed by little more than civic goodwill.
Emmerich's proximity to the Netherlands gave it an unusual commercial character for a small Rhenish town, though its Notgeld issues are not among the more artistically ambitious of the period.