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| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Stuttgart (City of Stuttgart) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Pfennig Stadtkassenschein Gültig bis 31. März 1924 Stuttgart, 21. März 1922 Oberbürgermeister Stadtgemeinde Stuttgart |
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| Reverse lettering | Das Herrenhaus auf dem Marktplatz erbaut 1435 abgebrochen 1821 |
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Stuttgart's 1922 Pfennig notes were issued under the emergency currency provisions that allowed German municipalities to fill the void left by a central banking system visibly losing its grip on inflation. By mid-1922, the Reichsbank simply could not produce small-denomination notes fast enough to meet demand, and cities like Stuttgart stepped in with locally printed Notgeld to keep retail commerce functioning.
The elongated format — over three times as wide as it is tall — was common among Württemberg municipal issues of this period and allowed for more compact storage in cashier drawers handling high transaction volumes.