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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Coburg (City of Coburg), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Veste Coburg fortress perched atop a wooded hillside, rendered in a detailed woodcut-style print in dark blue-grey tones, with the caption "Veste Coburg" above. Denomination numerals "50" appear in red within circular guilloche cartouches at left and right, set against an ochre-toned leaf-pattern underprint filling the corner panels. Lower centre carries a text box in Gothic script with the year of issue and validity statement, signed by the Magistrat, with a serial number in the lower right panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | Not Geld Fünfzig Pfennig der Stadt Coburg HEINZ SCHLESSIL |
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Coburg's postwar notgeld program is historically unusual for a reason that has nothing to do with the money itself: the city voted in 1919 to join Bavaria rather than the newly formed state of Thuringia, making it the only German city to change its state affiliation by popular referendum under the Weimar constitution. This note was issued in the middle of that political uncertainty, when municipal governments across Germany were printing their own emergency fractional currency to address the severe coin shortage left by wartime metal requisitioning.
J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a small commercial printer that handled notgeld commissions for numerous Bavarian and Swabian municipalities during this period — a regional job printer, not a security press.