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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nördlingen (City of Nördlingen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Panoramic vignette of the Nördlingen city skyline occupies the upper portion, centered on the tall tower of St. George's Church (St. Georgskirche) amid the townscape, all beneath a dotted semicircular arch; the denomination numeral '50' appears in bold at each upper corner within a hatched border frame. The lower register is divided into three panels: the left and right panels each carry the voucher inscription in block lettering, while the central panel bears the city name 'NORDLINGEN' in large display type above the issuing authority designation and a manuscript signature of the acting mayor. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG PFENNIG NORDLINGEN RAT DER STADT: RECHTSK: BURGERMEISTER. |
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Nördlingen's Notgeld issues of 1920 sit within a period when German municipal authorities were effectively forced into emergency currency production — the Reichsbank couldn't supply sufficient small-denomination coinage, and towns across Bavaria printed their own stop-gaps. Nördlingen, sitting inside one of the best-preserved meteorite craters in the world, was a minor printing center in its own right, which likely made local production practical rather than exceptional.
The DeNG reference places this as part of a multi-variety series (suffix .14-3/4 suggests sequential design or date variants within the same denomination run). Collector interest in Bavarian municipal Notgeld tends to cluster around complete series rather than individual notes.