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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Cottbus |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Orange and black reverse with the denomination 'Eine halbe Mark' at the top within a rectangular border. A block of text in Gothic script occupies the central field, stating the redemption conditions, with the city treasury of Cottbus named as the redemption authority. |
| Reverse lettering | Eine halbe Mark Die Einlösung dieses Scheines muß bis zum 31. December 1918 bei der Stadthaupt-Kasse der Stadt Cottbus erfolgen. |
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Cottbus issued this Notgeld note in 1918 under severe wartime coin shortages that had stripped small denominations from everyday commerce across Germany. Municipal authorities — not the Reichsbank — were left to fill the gap, and hundreds of towns printed their own emergency fractional currency that year. Carl Flemming AG in Berlin was a well-established commercial printer with deep roots in cartographic and fine printing work, an unusual pedigree for emergency currency but not uncommon among the contracted firms of that period.
At 70 × 50 mm, this is among the smaller Notgeld formats produced, reflecting the modest production budgets most municipal magistrates were working with in the final year of the war.