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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Belgard, City of |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Emergency issue (Notgeld) of the City of Belgard, with the denomination 50 Pfennig rendered in bold letterpress type within a decorative border. The face carries the issuing authority inscription and relevant municipal text, framed by a guilloche-pattern underprint typical of German wartime Notgeld production. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries standard reverse text consistent with German municipal Notgeld issues of the First World War era, including validity conditions and denomination confirmation, set within a printed border with decorative guilloche elements. |
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Belgard — now Białogard in northwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Pomeranian town that issued emergency currency during the notgeld period when small-change shortages made local scrip a practical necessity rather than a collectible novelty. Carl Flemming & T. C. Wiskott was a Glogau-based printing and engraving house with a long commercial history; they produced notgeld for numerous Silesian and Pomeranian municipalities during the same period, which means this note shares press lineage with dozens of other municipal issues from the region.
Glogau is listed in the catalog data as both printer location and place of printing — consistent, unlike many notgeld entries where the two diverge.