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50 Pfennig Rheinland-Pfalz, French occupation
| Issuer | Landesregierung von Rheinland-Pfalz (State Government of Rhineland-Palatinate) |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Currency | Reichsmark (1924-1948) |
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| Obverse description | The face of the note is laid out on purple-tinted paper with a floral scroll underprint in red-orange, centred on a vignette of a bound sheaf of twelve wheat ears enclosed within an ornate guilloche border. The denomination numeral '50' is repeated in all four corners in red. Inscriptions identifying the issuing authority and legal basis span the lower portion, with the serial number and facsimile signature of the Minister of Finance below. |
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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) |
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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.