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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Montabaur (City of Montabaur) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue, red, and brown tones on a vertically striped guilloche ground. A large red-outlined numeral '50' dominates the centre, overlaid by the denomination inscription 'Pfennig' in Gothic blackletter script. The heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Montabaur' runs in ornate Gothic lettering across the top, while a decorative border of stylised bramble branches and small birds frames the entire composition. A date panel at the lower centre reads 'Montabaur, den 1. Dezember 1920' above the issuing authority line 'Der Magistrat · Der Stadtverord.-Vorsteher', below which two manuscript facsimile signatures appear. |
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| Reverse lettering | № [serial number] Karl Staudinger GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN |
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Montabaur's 1920 Kleingeldscheine were part of the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Weimar Germany when postwar coin shortages made small change effectively impossible to find. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich were prolific Notgeld printers of the period, handling commissions for dozens of towns simultaneously — quality control was consistent, though the designs varied considerably depending on what the issuing municipality supplied.
Karl Staudinger's involvement gives this note a documented design credit, which is more than most comparable Kleingeldscheine can claim.