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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Weinheim (City of Weinheim) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 102 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a central oval vignette of a panoramic landscape view of Weinheim with the Bergstraße hills and castle ruins in the background, framed by elaborate vine and grape cluster borders in green and yellow. A circular city seal of Weinheim appears at lower left, while the denomination cartouche at lower right reads '50 PFENNIG' in blue on a white roundel. The lower centre carries a Bavarian blue-and-white lozenge underprint beneath the issuing text, dated Weinheim, den 23. April 1919, with a manuscript signature of the Gemeinderat (municipal council). |
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| Reverse lettering | 50PFENNIG 50PFENNIG Weinheim d. had. Bergstraße 50 PFENNIG |
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Weinheim's 50 Pfennig Notgeld from 1919 belongs to the first major wave of German municipal emergency currency, issued when chronic coin shortages — worsened by wartime hoarding and the collapse of the Imperial monetary system — left small towns scrambling to pay wages and facilitate daily commerce. Hundreds of German cities did the same that year, but the quality of execution varied enormously.
Doering'sche Kunstdruckerei in Karlsruhe had a solid reputation for fine chromolithographic work, and Kusche's design reflects that — this is not a rushed wartime stopgap but a considered commission from a printer capable of genuine craft.