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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jülich (City of Jülich) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-black on plain paper within a decorative zigzag border, with the denomination '50' repeated in each of the four corners. The central vignette presents a panoramic engraved view of Jülich circa 1780, showing the fortified town with its star-shaped bastions, a river with a bridge in the foreground, and church steeples and rooftops extending to the horizon. A ribbon scroll at the top of the vignette bears the legend 'JÜLICH UM 1780'. |
| Reverse lettering | JÜLICH UM 1780 50 50 50 50 |
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Jülich's 1919 notgeld issue came during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland, which began under the Armistice terms of November 1918. The city sat squarely within the occupied zone, and the near-total collapse of small-change circulation — driven by hoarding and the broader monetary chaos of the immediate postwar months — forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. This 50 Pfennig piece is one such locally produced stop-gap.
Local printing is consistent with the period; most Rhineland notgeld from 1919 was produced close to home before the more elaborate collector-targeted series flooded the market from 1920 onward.