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50 Pfennig 2nd Issue
| Issuer | Magistrat des K.B. Marktes Babenhausen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 44.65 × 44.15 mm |
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| Obverse description | Square-format notgeld note printed in black on a green-tinted paper ground, with a bold double-rule border framing the entire face. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large Gothic type at both upper left and upper right corners, with the legend 'II. Ausgabe' (Second Issue) centered between them at the top. Below, the written denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is set in a blackletter typeface over the issuing authority inscription 'Notgeld des Marktes Babenhausen', with the place name rendered in a particularly large display font. The date '1920' is spaced across the lower field above a red-printed serial number on a ruled underprint, with the denomination '50 Pf' repeated in small type at the lower left and right margins; a faint circular guilloché vignette forms a central underprint behind the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 II. Ausgabe 50 Fünfzig Pfennig Notgeld des Marktes Babenhausen 1920 No. 19663 |
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Babenhausen was a small Bavarian market town — the "K.B." designating Königlich Bayerischer, a royal Bavarian administrative classification that was already anachronistic by 1920, the Wittelsbach monarchy having collapsed in November 1918. Municipal authorities continued using old letterhead and titles well into the early Weimar years, partly from inertia, partly because new official stationery was low on anyone's priority list during the postwar chaos.
The near-square format is a product of paper rationing, not aesthetic choice. Notgeld issuers at this level cut costs wherever possible.