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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Wildungen (Waldeck-Pyrmont) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld issued on 16 March 1921, with a decorative lace-style border in dark olive and corner medallions bearing the numeral 50. The municipal arms of Bad Wildungen — a shield with an eight-pointed star — appear at upper left, while the large red denomination numeral dominates the centre field against a pale yellow guilloche underprint. Three manuscript signatures appear below the issuing authority line, with a redemption clause in a banner cartouche along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Preis und Dank dem Allmächtigen. Der uns das herrliche Geschenk, Den Heilquell von Wildungen gab. Hufeland 1832 |
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Bad Wildungen was a spa town in the Waldeck-Pyrmont principality, and its notgeld issues from 1921 reflect the broader municipal scramble to fill the small-change vacuum that plagued post-WWI Germany. The Reichsbank simply could not produce low-denomination coinage fast enough to meet demand, which pushed hundreds of towns — many far smaller than Bad Wildungen — into printing their own emergency notes. J. C. König & Ebhardt of Hannover were a respectable commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which was perfectly typical for notgeld of this period and denomination.