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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nördlingen (City of Nördlingen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG PFENNIG NÖRDLINGEN RAT DER STADT: RECHTSK: BÜRGERMEISTER. |
| Reverse description | Two ornate baroque column-and-shelf vignettes flank a central text panel printed on a pale vertical-line underprint, enclosing a poetic verse in German extolling the city of Nördlingen, followed by the issue date and validity clause. A serial number in bold gothic numerals with a decorative asterisk device is centred at the foot of the note, with the letters 'O.' and 'G.' placed in the upper corners as plate control marks. |
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Nördlingen sits at the center of the Ries crater, a 15-million-year-old meteorite impact basin, and the city has never been shy about that geological identity. This 1920 Kleingeldschein belongs to the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded German commerce after the war as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small denomination coinage in circulation — by 1920 hoarding and metal shortages had made even 10-Pfennig pieces effectively invisible in daily trade.
The Stadt Nördlingen series was printed locally, which accounts for the occasional registration inconsistencies seen across the run. Ink absorption on the soft wartime paper stock varies noticeably between individual specimens.