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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtverwaltung Königshofen im Grabfeld |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the heraldic coat of arms of Königshofen im Grabfeld — a quartered shield in red and silver with a helm and mantling in pink and green — set within an elaborate wreath of wheat ears and foliage. The denomination '50 Pfennig' is printed in large bold Gothic type to the left and right of the central arms, with the issue date 'Ausgegeben 1. Mai 1919' at lower left and the validity date 'Gültig bis 1. Januar 1921' at lower right. The border is composed of intertwined diagonal ribbon bands in blue and white, interspersed with clusters of fruit rendered in a folk-art style, and the printer's imprint 'H. Stürtz A.G. Würzburg' appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Ausgegeben 1. Mai 1919 Gültig bis 1. Januar 1921 H. Stürtz A.G. Würzburg |
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Königshofen im Grabfeld was a small market town in Lower Franconia, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in 1919, it issued its own emergency small change — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. H. Stürtz in Würzburg was a well-regarded academic press that took on a considerable volume of this notgeld work for Franconian towns, producing runs that were typographically clean but rarely ambitious in design.
The Grabfeld reference in the town's name locates it in the historic border region where Franconia meets Thuringia — administratively Bavarian, culturally contested. Whether that had any bearing on local hoarding behavior or note retention rates is unrecorded.