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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Straubing |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Straubinger Notgeld Gutschein für Fünfzig Pfennig Magistrat der Stadt Straubing Maiz, Rechtl. Bürgermeister Pfannenstiel, Vorsd. d. Gem.-Kollegiums Januar 1919 Edmund Senft |
| Reverse description | Green and black design centred on a full-length vignette of 'Bruder Straubinger', the legendary travelling journeyman, rendered in a bold illustrative style with the Gothic towers of Straubing visible in the background. The denomination '50 Pfennig' appears in large numerals within guilloche-bordered panels at left and right. Validity text is set in Fraktur script in the lower portion of each flanking panel, and the artist's signature 'Edmund Senft 19' is inscribed at lower centre. A serial number is printed in black in the lower right margin. |
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| Comments |
Straubing's 50 Pfennig notgeld was issued in the chaotic inflationary wake of Germany's defeat in 1918, when hundreds of municipalities were forced to produce their own emergency small-denomination notes to compensate for the disappearance of coins from circulation. Edmund Senft, listed here as both printer and designer, was a local producer — not one of the major security printers like Giesecke & Devrient who handled larger series.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 almost certainly reflects a catalog or documentation error. That date — the day Berlin fell and Hitler died — is implausible for a 1919 municipal issue.