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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinderat der Stadt Müllheim in Baden |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1918 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark ink on a lilac-toned paper ground with a fine guilloche underprint. A decorative letterpress border frames the note on all four sides, incorporating grapevine and bunch-of-grapes motifs at the corners, with loop and spiral ornamental bands along the edges. The denomination numeral '50' appears in the upper-right and lower-left corners, while the central text in Gothic Fraktur script reads 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig', followed by the redemption clause and the issuing authority 'Der Gemeinderat der Stadt Müllheim in Baden', with a manuscript signature below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark ink on the same lilac paper, with two large circular guilloche rosette vignettes flanking a central vignette of a grapevine branch with leaves and a bunch of grapes. The serial number is printed in large bold numerals at the top, preceded by 'Gutschein №', and below the central vignette the expiry notice is set in Gothic Fraktur script, with a handwritten extension clause in ink indicating indefinite prolongation. |
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Müllheim's municipal council issued this Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the final year of the First World War. Metal had long been hoarded or requisitioned, and central authorities were slow to fill the gap — so thousands of German municipalities stepped in with their own emergency scrip, most of it printed locally in tiny runs with limited oversight.
Baden-region issues from 1918 are generally less documented than their Weimar-era successors, and Müllheim's wartime output in particular is sparsely catalogued.