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50 Pfennig Federal Treasury Note
| Issuer | Federal Ministry of Finance (Bundesministerium der Finanzen) |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50 DEM) |
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| Obverse description | The face of this small-format treasury note is printed in dark red-brown on a fine guilloche underprint, with a large central oval vignette containing the bold numeral '50' over the legend 'PFENNIG'. The circular legend 'BUNDESKASSENSCHEIN' arcs above and 'BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND' below within the oval border. Denomination numerals '50' appear in each of the four corners, and a serial number is printed in red at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG 50 PF GELDFÄLSCHUNG WIRD MIT ZUCHTHAUS BESTRAFT (Translation: Money counterfeiting is punishable by penitentiary imprisonment.) |
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West Germany's small-denomination treasury notes — the Bundeskassenscheine — occupied an odd administrative space: technically issued by the Finance Ministry rather than the Bundesbank, they circulated alongside coins as fractional currency and were never considered part of the formal banknote series. The 1967 issue was the last time the Federal Republic bothered printing paper at this denomination; rising coin production capacity made it redundant almost immediately.
Bundesdruckerei had been printing continuously in Berlin since the postwar reconstruction of its facilities, and this note is among the more anonymous products of that press — functional, short-lived, and quietly withdrawn once coin supply stabilized.