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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Schleswig |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on violet-grey paper with a fine letterpress guilloche underprint repeating the text 'Stadt Schleswig' across the entire face. The denomination numeral '50' appears at upper left and lower right, with the word 'Pfennig' below each, framed within dotted-rule borders. At centre, the title 'Gutschein' is set in bold letterpress above a serial number, followed by the written denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in large display type. The municipal coat of arms of Schleswig — a crenellated tower with crescent moon and Star of David — is reproduced twice, at upper right and lower left. The issuing authority 'Der Magistrat der Stadt Schleswig' is inscribed at centre below the denomination, accompanied by a manuscript signature, with the printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg.' and the legend 'Gesetzlich geschützt.' at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain violet-grey paper, unprinted save for a three-line letterpress text block centred on the reverse, stating the note's validity condition in German blackletter type. No vignette, border, or ornamental element is present. |
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Schleswig's municipal government issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — during the notgeld wave that swept German and Austrian territories in the wake of wartime coin hoarding after 1914. A printer in Augsburg supplying a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein was entirely typical of the period; local print capacity was overwhelmed and contracts went wherever presses were available.
J. P. Himmer was a long-established Augsburg commercial printer, not a security printing house. The absence of specialist anti-counterfeiting infrastructure mattered little at these denominations — the notes were stopgaps, expected to circulate briefly and be retired once coinage returned to normal channels.