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50 Pfennig

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.

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