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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Ochsenfurt a/Main |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and white Notgeld voucher printed in letterpress, with a geometric guilloche underprint throughout. A central vignette shows a view of the Ochsenfurt town hall and church tower, over which the large Gothic-script denomination «Fünfzig Pfennig» is superimposed. The four corners carry the numeral «50» within circular ornamental frames, while the upper border bears the validity notice and the lower border carries the Latin motto «DEUS DA NOBIS PACEM»; below the central text block two manuscript signatures appear above the issuing authority line «Der Stadtmagistrat». |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 Stadtmagistrat Ochsenfurt a/Main 1914 Kriegsnotgeld 1919 H. Stürtz A.G. Würzburg |
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Ochsenfurt is a small walled town on the Main roughly 20 kilometers south of Würzburg, and in 1919 its municipal magistrate was doing exactly what hundreds of similar German authorities were doing: issuing Notgeld to paper over the catastrophic small-change shortage that persisted well after the Armistice. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying low-denomination coin years earlier, and local governments filled the gap themselves.
H. Stürtz in Würzburg was the natural choice for a municipality this size — a serious regional academic press, not a specialist security printer, which is visible in the workmanship if you look closely enough.