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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Stuttgart (City of Stuttgart) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and gold letterpress note with a decorative guilloche border framing the entire face. The issuer's title 'Haupt- und Residenzstadt Stuttgart' is inscribed in Gothic script across the upper portion, flanked by two small rampant horse vignettes at the corners. The denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' appears in large Gothic lettering at centre, below which a circular embossed municipal seal of the Stadtgemeinde Stuttgart is affixed, accompanied by a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister and the redemption clause in Gothic script. The numeral '50' is printed in large format at both lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green and buff note with an allover underprint of repeated '50' numerals and Iron Cross motifs forming a dense guilloche pattern across the entire field. The issuer's name 'Haupt- u. Residenz-stadt Stuttgart' is set in large Gothic script at the top, centred above a decorative foliate cartouche enclosing the numeral '50'. Below, the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' appears in bold Gothic lettering, followed by the validity clause and the anti-counterfeiting warning. The printer's imprint appears at the lower right margin. |
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Stuttgart issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — in 1919 because the postwar German central monetary system simply could not produce and distribute small-denomination coin and note supplies fast enough to meet local demand. Municipalities across Germany filled the gap themselves, contracting whatever printers were at hand. Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei was a local commercial press, not a security printer, which is why the embossed seal carries most of the authentication burden here.
The S127.2-3 suffix in the DeNG reference denotes two distinct varieties within this issue — likely differing in serial number range or minor typographic detail rather than any substantial design change.