Catalog
50 Pfennig Rheinland-Pfalz, French occupation
| Issuer | Landesregierung von Rheinland-Pfalz (State Government of Rhineland-Palatinate) |
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| Year | 1947 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GELDSCHEIN FÜNFZIG PFENNIG AUSGEGEBEN AUF GRUND DES GESETZES VOM 30 SEPT. 1947 KOBLENZ, DEN 15. OKTOBER 1947 LANDESREGIERUNG VON RHEINLAND-PFALZ DER MINISTER DER FINANZEN (Translation: BANKNOTE FIFTY PFENNIG ISSUED BASED ON THE LAW OF 30 SEPT. 1947 KOBLENZ, 15 OCTOBER 1947 STATE GOVERNMENT OF RHINELAND-PALATINATE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE) |
| Reverse description | The back of the note carries a central vignette of a Rhenish riverside landscape with a castle, watchtower, and mountain backdrop, with a river or lake in the foreground traversed by a steamboat and smaller vessels. The denomination numeral '50' appears in all four corners, the whole contained within a decorative guilloche border consistent in style with that of the face. The anti-counterfeiting warning text is printed across the lower portion of the note. |
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Rhineland-Palatinate was itself a new political creation in 1947 — a French-administered Land cobbled together from parts of the former Prussian Rhine Province, the Palatinate, and portions of Hesse-Nassau. This note predates the currency reform of June 1948, which wiped out Reichsmark-era and transitional issues almost entirely. The Landesregierung had minimal monetary infrastructure and no printing heritage of its own; these Länder-level emergency issues were a stopgap while the Allied occupation authorities worked toward a unified western German currency.
The 1948 reform rendered the note obsolete within roughly a year of issue.