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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schweinfurt (City of Schweinfurt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream and black letterpress notgeld on a diamond-pattern underprint. A central ornate cartouche framed by scrollwork and floral corner ornaments bears the denomination numerals '50' at upper left and right, with 'Pf.' at lower corners. The main text in blackletter script reads 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfenige', followed by the payability clause and the issuance date 'Schweinfurt, den 10. Juni 1920', beneath which appears the designation 'Stadtrat:' with a manuscript signature and a serial number prefixed 'No'. The printer's imprint 'Otto Rueckert' appears in small type at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black, blue-green, and tan on a fine wavy-line underprint. A large central vignette presents the heraldic eagle of Schweinfurt — a spread-winged bird rendered in blue-green tones — set within an elaborate Jugendstil cartouche flanked by ornamental pillars with figural capitals and laurel swags. The denomination '50 pf.' appears in bold at upper left and right, with the figure '50' repeated vertically on each lateral border. A ribbon scroll at the base carries the inscription 'Schwein-furt.' in blackletter script. |
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Schweinfurt's 1920 Pfennig notgeld emerged from the acute coin shortage that followed Germany's wartime metal requisitions — by 1920 municipalities across Bavaria were still printing their own small-denomination scrip because Reichsmünzen simply weren't reaching retail circulation in sufficient quantities. Stadt Schweinfurt contracted locally with Otto Rueckert, a Schweinfurt-based printer, rather than using one of the larger Leipzig or Stuttgart notgeld specialists, which kept production costs down but limited print quality.
Rueckert-printed Schweinfurt issues are modestly collected within the Bavarian municipal notgeld series — not rare, but not overproduced either.