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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Amberg |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue, ochre, and green on cream paper, with an all-over underprint of stylised oak-leaf scrollwork forming the border. To the left, a large ornate vignette presents the quartered arms of Amberg — a golden lion passant above the blue-and-white lozengy field of Bavaria — within an elaborate cartouche surmounted by a crown. To the right, the denomination '50 Pf.' is set in bold ochre Gothic lettering at upper right, beneath which the conditions of redemption and the issuing authority are given in Fraktur script, accompanied by a manuscript facsimile signature of the Stadtmagistrat official. The printer's imprint 'Bruck Schwarz Lindenberg' appears in small type at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig 50 Pfennig Kriegs-Notgeld Stadt Amberg 1919 |
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Amberg's 50 Pfennig Notgeld of 1919 belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency money issued after the collapse of the empire, when coin disappeared almost overnight due to hoarding and metal shortages. The Stadtmagistrat — the city's governing magistracy — had legal authority to issue small-denomination notes only because the central banking system had effectively ceased to function at that level. Thousands of German towns did the same, but most used local printers; Amberg contracted J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu, a firm in the Allgäu region better known for commercial printing than currency work.