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50 Pfennig Red-brown
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Füssen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same red-brown monochrome and divided into two panels by a vertical rule. The larger left panel carries a vigorous narrative vignette in a wood-engraving style, showing a bare-chested heroic figure holding a sword confronting a winged, serpentine dragon rearing above a slain boar, with a medieval castle and Alpine peaks visible in the background. The narrower right panel bears a geometric lattice underprint and the numeral '50' enclosed within a bold circle, serving as the denomination indicator. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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Füssen's municipal administration issued emergency Kleingeld in 1918 as the German wartime economy consumed metal coinage faster than it could be minted. These Stadtmagistrat-issued Notgeld notes filled the gap left by the near-total disappearance of small-denomination coins from everyday commerce — a problem acute in smaller Bavarian towns far from major banking infrastructure.
The 1918 municipal series from Füssen is not widely documented in specialist literature, and surviving examples tend to appear in regional German collections rather than the international market.