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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Swinemünde |
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| Year | 1917-1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr. GUT FÜR FÜNFZIG PFENNIG Swinemünde, 1. Juni 1920 DER MAGISTRAT 50 Pfennig |
| Reverse description | Printed on cream-white paper with a large orange numeral "50" underprint at centre, flanked above and below by decorative orange guilloche border strips of repeating lozenge ornaments. The main text is set in black letterpress and states the redemption conditions. The printer's imprint "J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover" appears in small type at the lower centre margin. |
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Swinemünde — now Świnoujście, Poland — was a busy Baltic port town under German administration when this Notgeld piece was issued. Emergency municipal currency of this kind proliferated across Germany after 1914 as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation, hoarded by a public increasingly distrustful of the wartime economy. The Magistrat here contracted J. C. König & Ebhardt, a well-established Hannover printing house with deep roots in quality paper and stationery production — an unsurprising choice for a municipality wanting something more credible than the crude cardboard scrip many smaller towns were producing.
The watermarked paper is worth noting: not all Notgeld issues bothered with security features, and its presence here suggests the Magistrat was concerned about local counterfeiting or at minimum wanted to project institutional legitimacy during an unstable period.