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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Stuttgart (City of Stuttgart) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The left panel bears a bold black vignette of the rearing Stuttgart civic horse (Stuttgarter Rössle) set against a repeated text underprint of the city name, with the serial number in green below. The central panel carries the denomination in Fraktur letterpress — '50 Fünfzig Pfennig' — above the designation 'Stadtkassenschein', the validity date, the issue date of 21 March 1922, and the manuscript signature of the Oberbürgermeister. A circular official seal of the Stadtgemeinde Stuttgart at right incorporates a smaller rendition of the rearing horse. |
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| Reverse lettering | Das kleine Theater Auf dem Platz des Bismarck-Moltke Denkmals Neckarstraße erbaut 1779 abgebrannt 1802 Links Waisenhaus u. Neues Schloß |
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Stuttgart's 1922 Notgeld issues came during the period when municipal authorities across Germany were producing emergency small-denomination paper because coin shortages had made fractional currency nearly impossible to find in everyday transactions. The Reichsbank's inability to keep pace with inflation-driven hoarding left cities, towns, and even individual businesses to fill the gap themselves — legally, under provisions that had been extended well past their original scope.
By 1922, much of this municipal Notgeld had shifted from purely utilitarian scrip into deliberately collectible issues, with local governments printing attractive series knowing philatelists would remove them from circulation immediately. Whether Stuttgart's 50 Pfennig was genuinely circulated or absorbed into collections before it could be is worth considering when assessing wear.