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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Kindelbrück (City of Kindelbrück) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#GRM:700.1- |
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| Obverse lettering | Kindelbrück Immer vorwärts Nie zurück GUTSCHEIN über Stadt Kindelbrück den 23. Nov 1920 die Stadt-Verwaltung: 50 Fünfzig Pfennig 50 |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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Kindelbrück is a small town in Thuringia, and this note is typical of the enormous wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany between 1919 and 1921, when chronic coin shortages — partly a consequence of wartime metal requisitioning and postwar hoarding — forced even minor local authorities to print their own emergency fractional currency. Thousands of German towns did the same; the sheer volume of issues from this period is what makes individual attribution painstaking work.
The watermarked paper is worth noting — many comparable small-town issues used plain stock, so the presence of a security feature here suggests either a more careful issuing process or paper sourced from a commercial printer's standard stock rather than improvised locally.