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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Jüterbog (City of Jüterbog) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Teal guilloche underprint on cream paper, with a layered rectangular border of interlocking geometric and foliate ornaments and decorative corner blocks. The municipal coat of arms — a rearing goat within a heraldic shield, rendered in teal — occupies the central vignette. The denomination numeral '50' and the word 'Pfennig' in bold Fraktur script appear symmetrically to the left and right of the central arms. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig |
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Jüterbog's 1918 50 Pfennig Notgeld belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency issues that proliferated across Germany as metal coinage disappeared into wartime hoarding and Reichsbank supply chains collapsed. Small towns and cities were left to fill the gap themselves, with varying degrees of competence and care. Jüterbog, a garrison town in Brandenburg with a long military history, was neither the largest nor the smallest issuer in the region.
Paper quality and ink stability vary considerably across surviving examples of this series — a known weakness of many 1918 municipal issues printed under wartime material constraints.