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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Neuss (City of Neuss) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 95 × 57 mm |
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| Protection type | Underprint |
| Protection description | Repeating text underprint on both sides reading 'STADT' and 'RHNEUSSARH' in light tones across the entire note surface. |
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Neuss issued this 50 Pfennig Notgeld in 1919 as part of the nationwide emergency currency wave that followed the collapse of the Imperial monetary system. The Reichsbank's inability to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage after the war — driven partly by wartime metal requisitioning and partly by a collapse of public confidence in state institutions — forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own stopgap notes. Neuss was one of thousands of towns to do so, with no special distinction in its series.
The underprint security feature is modest; most municipal Notgeld of this period relied on it as a token gesture rather than a genuine counterfeit deterrent.