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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Coblenz (City of Koblenz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in yellow-ochre, black, and green on white paper, with a perforated-style border frame. The city arms of Coblenz — a white shield bearing a green cross surmounted by a golden crown — occupies the centre, flanked on each side by square green decorative vignettes with floral guilloche patterns and black panels lettered 'PFENNIG'. The large denomination numeral '50' is superimposed over the shield, with 'STADT COBLENZ' in bold Gothic lettering across the top and 'NOTGELD' along the lower centre. Validity text in German script at lower left references expiry three months after announcement in the Coblenzer Tageszeitungen, dated Coblenz, 1. Mai 1921, and signed by the Oberbürgermeister; the printer's imprint 'DRUCK · SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG/ALLGÄU' appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT COBLENZ 50 PFENNIG NOTGELD Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach erfolgter Aufkündigung in den Coblenzer Tageszeitungen. Coblenz, 1. Mai 1921. Der Oberbürgermeister. DRUCK · SCHWARZ, LINDENBERG/ALLGÄU |
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Koblenz issued this 50 Pfennig note in 1921 under the Notgeld system, when chronic small-coin shortages forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency currency. The printer, J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, was a regional firm in the Allgäu that handled a significant volume of Notgeld commissions during this period — the physical distance between printer and issuing city was entirely unremarkable for the trade.
The DeNG reference places this within a set of four variants (0233.1–4/4), suggesting the city issued the denomination across multiple design iterations, a common tactic among municipalities that found collector demand for Notgeld a useful source of additional revenue well beyond any genuine circulation need.