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| Issuer | Stadt Tuttlingen (City of Tuttlingen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kriegsnotgeld der Stadt Tuttlingen 50 Pfennig Gültig bis 31. Dez. 1920. Namens der bürgerlichen Kollegien: Oberbürgermeister: Nachahmung strafbar. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig No 015649 Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei G. m. b. H., Stuttgart. |
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Tuttlingen's 50 Pfennig Notgeld was produced during the post-WWI emergency currency period, when the collapse of centralized monetary supply forced hundreds of German municipalities to commission their own small-denomination scrip. Uhland'sche Buchdruckerei in Stuttgart was one of several regional printers that handled bulk Notgeld contracts for Baden-Württemberg towns during this period — efficient, local, and cheap.
Tuttlingen was already an established center of the surgical instrument industry by this point, a detail that occasionally surfaces in local Notgeld imagery but adds nothing to the note's collectibility on its own.