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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Dinkelsbühl |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG GILTIG FÜR DEN GELDVERKEHR INNERHALB DER STADT ZAHLBAR MIT 50 Pfg STADTMAGISTRAT DINKELSBÜHL No |
| Reverse description | A full-panel colour vignette in lithographic illustrative style presents a panoramic townscape of historic Dinkelsbühl viewed across a calm body of water, with reeds in the foreground and the reflections of a church tower and stepped gabled rooftops visible in the still surface. The composition is framed within a gilt inner border set against a red-brown outer ground, with the denomination numeral '50' printed in orange within the upper right corner of the border. An artist's signature appears in the lower right margin of the vignette. |
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Dinkelsbühl is one of the few medieval walled towns in Bavaria to have survived both world wars intact, and its Stadtmagistrat issued Notgeld during the inflationary chaos of the early Weimar period like hundreds of other small German municipalities scrambling to cover a severe shortage of small-denomination coinage. These emergency issues were a local stopgap, not a bank instrument — printed cheaply, circulated briefly, and theoretically redeemable once the coin supply normalized.
Small-town Bavarian Notgeld of this type was often printed by regional job shops with no particular security printing expertise, which is why paper quality and ink registration vary considerably even within the same series.