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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Trostberg (City of Trostberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a Bavarian castle with a red-tiled conical tower framed by a decorative arch with acanthus scrollwork, set against a blue sky with clouds. Denomination numerals '50' appear in red-outlined white lettering within green wreath cartouches on both left and right panels, flanked by elaborate gilded baroque foliate underprint. Lower left panel carries a validity notice in Gothic script; lower right bears the issuing authority, date, and a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Trostberg § 50 § |
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Trostberg's 50 Pfennig notgeld was issued in 1920 as part of the vast municipal emergency currency wave that swept Germany following the First World War, when coin shortages made small-denomination paper a practical necessity rather than a policy choice. Thousands of German towns printed their own notgeld during this period, and many — Trostberg included — issued notes that were collected as souvenirs rather than spent, creating artificial print runs with little genuine circulation.
The printing date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a cataloging anomaly or a transcription error; that date is the day Hitler died in Berlin, by which point Bavaria was falling to American forces and no municipal printing authority was producing notgeld from 1920 plates.