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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein 50 Fünfzig Pfennige. Grimma, 4. November 1918. Der Bezirksverband der Amtshauptmannschaft |
| Reverse description | Green and dark-ink reverse centred on a detailed line-engraved vignette of a large Neo-Gothic public building set among trees. The denomination numeral 50 appears in ornamental gear-wheel cartouches at each of the four corners. At the top a series designation reads Ausg. B Reihe 127, and at the foot a validity inscription states that the note is current within the district. |
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Grimma's Amtshauptmannschaft — the administrative district authority in Saxony — issued this Notgeld in 1918 under the acute small-change shortage that plagued German civilian life in the final year of the war. The imperial government had systematically stripped copper and nickel coinage from circulation for war production, leaving local administrations to fill the gap with paper fractions. Bezirksverbände were not conventional monetary institutions, and their authority to issue these notes rested on municipal emergency powers rather than any banking charter.
At 50×41mm, this is among the smallest paper formats produced during the first wave of German Notgeld — closer to a postage stamp than a banknote.