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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Uslar (City of Uslar) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The left portion of the reverse is divided into two panels: the upper panel carries a four-line verse in Gothic blackletter set against horizontal green rules, and the lower panel bears the large green denomination '50 Pfg' with 'DER STADT USLAR' in bold sans-serif below. To the right, a full-height pen-and-ink caricature vignette portrays the orator Bode — an elderly bearded figure in a long coat and cap, holding a goblet — initialled 'KK' at lower left. The printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Noch hundert Jahr Nach meinem Tode Sprechen die Leute Vom Redner Bode! 50 Pfg DER STADT USLAR EDLER & KRISCHE, HANNOVER |
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Uslar is a small town in Lower Saxony, and this note is a piece of German Notgeld — the emergency municipal scrip that proliferated across thousands of German towns between 1914 and the early 1920s as coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Cities, towns, and even individual businesses were authorized to fill the gap themselves.
Edler & Krische was one of Hanover's more active Notgeld printers, handling commissions from numerous municipalities across the region. Karl Klanke's involvement as designer suggests a locally commissioned artwork rather than a stock layout pulled from a printer's catalogue — a distinction that mattered to the collectors who drove a secondary market for these issues even while they were still theoretically in circulation.