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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Kurdirektion Bad Neuenahr (Municipality of Bad Neuenahr, Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1922 |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFG BAD-NEUENAHR A.-G. Bank-Abt. Dieser Scheck verliert seine Gültigkeit am 31. Dezbr. 1922. Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus unserm Guthaben an den Inhaber 50 Pfg Reihe 1 Scheck 2 Neuenahr, 1. März 1922 Die Kurdirektion |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PFG der Herd erlosch, der Alte ruht Noch spürst im Ahrwein Du die Glut |
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Bad Neuenahr's status as a spa resort town — its thermal springs had drawn wealthy visitors since the 1850s — made it an unusual but not illogical issuer of Notgeld. The Kurdirektion, the administrative body managing the spa district, issued this piece during the hyperinflationary squeeze of 1922 when municipal small change had effectively vanished from everyday commerce. Resort towns with high seasonal visitor traffic felt the coin shortage acutely; transactions at bath houses, hotels, and promenades depended on small denominations that the Reichsbank simply could not supply fast enough.
The Kurdirektion issues are among the more administratively curious of the Rhineland series — issued by a spa authority rather than a municipal treasury or savings bank.