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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Caub (City of Kaub) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two zones: on the left, a rectangular intaglio-style vignette in blue-green tones presents a detailed pen-and-ink view of the Pfalzgrafenstein castle rising from the Rhine River, with dramatic billowing clouds above and choppy water in the foreground, signed by the artist E. Neutowski in the lower margin. To the right, bold sans-serif lettering in brown reads "STADT CAUB" over the large numeral "50" and the word "PFENNIG" beneath. |
| Reverse lettering | STADT CAUB 50 PFENNIG |
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Kaub issued this Notgeld note during the early 1920s inflationary period, when hundreds of German municipalities printed their own emergency small-denomination currency to compensate for the chronic shortage of official coinage. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a significant volume of such commissions from towns across the Reich — their output was competent and consistent, which made them a preferred contractor for civic authorities with no printing infrastructure of their own.
Kaub, a small Rhine town best known as the site of Blücher's famous river crossing on New Year's Eve 1813, sits opposite the Loreley slate. The choice of a Munich printer for a Rhenish town was entirely routine — geography meant nothing in the Notgeld contracting market.