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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Linz am Rhein |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | M. Dumont Schauberg, Köln, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | KRIEGSGELD 50 (FÜNFZIG) PFENNIG Dieser Wertschein verliert am 1. Oktober 1921 seine Gültigkeit. Linz, den 1. April 1919. Der Bürgermeister: STADT LINZ M. DUMONT SCHAUBERG, KÖLN. |
| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a view of the historic Rathaus of Linz am Rhein, a multi-storey building with regularly spaced windows, a prominent arched entrance portal, and a small cupola-topped tower rising from the roofline, set amongst flanking trees against a patterned underprint ground. The denomination "50 PFENNIG" is letterpress-printed in the upper left and upper right corners. "STADT LINZ" appears at the bottom centre, and the composition is contained within a decorative border consistent in style with the obverse. |
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Linz am Rhein issued this note in 1919 as part of Germany's vast Notgeld phenomenon — a direct consequence of the wartime coin shortage that had stripped small denominations from everyday circulation. Hundreds of German municipalities printed their own emergency pfennig notes during this period, and M. Dumont Schauberg in Cologne was a prolific commercial printer that fulfilled orders for numerous Rhineland towns simultaneously.
Linz am Rhein sat within the Allied occupation zone after the Armistice, which added a layer of administrative complexity to local currency arrangements that purely domestic issuers didn't face.