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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schopfheim (City of Schopfheim) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint on pale paper, enclosed within a geometric zigzag border with the denomination numeral '50' at each corner. The large denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is rendered in elaborate German Kurrent script at centre, with a faint architectural vignette visible through the letterpress text. Below, a two-line validity clause is set in Gothic letterpress type, followed by the place and date of issue at lower centre and a manuscript Gemeinderat signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Green-tinted vignette within an arched frame showing a woman in traditional Black Forest costume seated in a landscape, holding an open book; to her right a half-timbered building and rolling hills form the background. The denomination '50' appears at upper left and 'Pfg' at upper right in decorative white serif lettering against the geometric lattice border. A dialect verse is inscribed in a cartouche at centre right, and the bold Gothic inscription 'STADT SCHOPFHEIM' runs across the lower margin. |
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Schopfheim's 1919 notgeld issue is one of hundreds of municipal emergency notes printed in southwestern Germany during the chaotic months following the armistice, when coin shortages made small-denomination paper an absolute necessity. W. Berggötz of Pforzheim was a regional commercial printer — not a specialist banknote firm — which is entirely typical of notgeld production, where municipalities worked with whoever was available locally rather than established security printers.
Pforzheim's role as a printing center during this period is easy to overlook; the city is better known for its jewelry industry than its press work.