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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Ochsenfurt am Main |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and cream Notgeld voucher printed in letterpress within a decorative border of repeated circular ornaments. A central vignette shows a townscape of Ochsenfurt with half-timbered buildings and a prominent tower, over which the denomination numeral '50' appears in each corner within guilloche roundels. The word 'Gutschein' is set in large Gothic blackletter script at the top centre, above the written denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig'; below, a two-line text declares payment by the Stadtkasse Ochsenfurt a/M., followed by two manuscript signatures above the imprint 'Der Stadtmagistrat'. The motto 'DEUS DA NOBIS PACEM' runs along the lower border, while lateral borders carry the legends 'DER GUTSCHEIN' and 'NACH BEKANNTGABE' vertically. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Obigen Betrag zahlt die Stadtkasse Ochsenfurt a/M. jederzeit bar aus Der Stadtmagistrat: VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT DEUS DA NOBIS PACEM DER GUTSCHEIN NACH BEKANNTGABE 50 |
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Ochsenfurt am Main is a small walled town on the Main river south of Würzburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1919, it issued its own emergency small change — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation during and immediately after the war. The Stadtmagistrat, the town's governing body, held the issuing authority rather than any bank or chamber of commerce, which was not universal practice and reflects the particular administrative structure of Bavarian municipalities at the time.
H. Stürtz in Würzburg was a logical choice of printer — close by, technically capable, and already handling institutional print work for the region.