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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schweinfurt (City of Schweinfurt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfenige Zahlbar bei d. Stadtkämerei an d. Vorzeiger Schweinfurt, den 10. Juni 1920. Stadtrat: No 380789 Pf. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 pf. Schwein-furt. |
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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.