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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bischofsheim vor der Rhön |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1#107.2, 107.3 |
| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a scalloped outer border enclosing the entire design. The denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" is rendered in large, elaborate Fraktur script across the centre, over a pale watermark-style underprint of the numeral "50". The issuing authority is inscribed at the top in Gothic lettering as "Gutschein der Stadt Bischofsheim v. Rh. über", while octagonal cartouches in the lower corners each bear "50 Pfg.". A redemption clause in the lower centre reads that payment is valid within three months of public announcement at the Stadtkasse Bischofsheim v/Rh., followed by the municipal council signature line "Der Stadtrat gez. Diekas". |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Bischofsheim v./Rh. 50 Pfg. No |
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Bischofsheim vor der Rhön is a small market town in the Rhön highlands of Lower Franconia, and like hundreds of similarly modest German municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 50 Pfennig denomination was among the most commonly needed in everyday transactions, which drove even tiny Stadtgemeinden to issue their own.
The DeNG 1 reference lists two varieties at 107.2 and 107.3, suggesting at least one design or print-run variation between issues — likely a paper stock or color difference rather than a denomination change.