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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Stade (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion carries a bold black silhouette vignette of the Stade city skyline — dominated by the tall spire of the Cosmae church — set against a teal-green radiating sunburst underprint. The denomination numeral '50' appears at upper left and at right flanking the inscription 'FÜNFZIG / 50 PFENNIG 50' in bold letterpress. Below the skyline, two flanking text panels in Gothic script bear the legal and redemption clauses, with the city arms (shield bearing a key and cross) at centre, accompanied by the manuscript signatures of Der Magistrat and Die Bürgervorsteher. The printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Frommpold (Der Magistrat) and Scheele (Die Bürgervorsteher) |
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Stade's 1920 Notgeld issue came out of the same municipal desperation that pushed hundreds of German towns to print their own emergency small change — the postwar coin shortage left ordinary retail transactions nearly impossible, and the Reichsbank offered no practical relief. Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was a prolific supplier to precisely this market, printing Notgeld for numerous Lower Saxony municipalities during 1919–1921.
The dual-signature format — one for the Magistrat, one for the Bürgervorsteher — reflects Stade's formal two-body municipal governance structure, a procedural detail that mattered locally even on emergency scrip.