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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Diez (City of Diez) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a two-colour scheme of dark navy-blue and terracotta-red. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large script in the upper left and upper right black panels, with 'Pf.' below each. The central vignette, rendered in red, presents a panoramic townscape of Diez with its church and surrounding buildings. Below the vignette, the town name 'Diez' is printed in large Gothic blackletter script, flanked by two text blocks: the left noting the Notgeld's validity conditions (three months after termination), and the right indicating the redemption office at the Stadtkasse Diez, with the signature of R. Fuchs and year '19'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Diez a. d. Lahn Diez, Nov. 1919 Der Magistrat Beigeordneter Grabmal der Gräfin Walburg von Epstein i. d. Stiftskirche zu Diez a. d. Lahn |
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Stadt Diez issued this 50 Pfennig notgeld in 1919 as part of the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany following the collapse of the imperial monetary system and the acute coin shortage of the postwar period. Diez, a small town on the Lahn in the Duchy of Nassau, had no special printing infrastructure — these notes were almost certainly produced by a regional commercial printer on whatever stock was available, which accounts for the variation in paper quality seen across surviving examples of Rhineland notgeld from this period.
The sheer volume of notgeld issued by German municipalities between 1914 and 1923 means individual Stadt issues are rarely studied in isolation. Diez's output is modest and unremarkable within the broader series.