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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neuwied (City of Neuwied) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the same red and yellow guilloche underprint, with the denomination '50 Pfennig' in red and yellow at each upper corner and the year '1919' in red at each lower corner. A central rectangular vignette, enclosed within a rounded ruled border and fine guilloche frame, presents a letterpress view of a large neoclassical civic building, identified as a principal edifice of Neuwied. The issuer name 'Stadt Neuwied' appears in bold black Gothic script along the lower margin, with the printer's imprint 'M. DUMONT SCHAUBERG, KÖLN.' in small capitals at the very foot. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 1919 Stadt Neuwied / M. DUMONT SCHAUBERG, KÖLN. |
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Neuwied's 1919 Notgeld issue is one of several thousand municipal emergency notes printed in Germany following the severe coin shortage that developed during and immediately after the First World War. M. Dumont Schauberg — a Cologne-based publishing and printing house with roots going back to 1805 — handled a substantial volume of Notgeld contracts during this period, their commercial printing infrastructure making them a natural choice for municipal authorities scrambling to keep small transactions functioning.
The Rhineland's occupation by Allied forces from late 1918 complicated local economic administration considerably, and Neuwied sat directly within that occupied zone.