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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Nördlingen (notgeld) (Federal state of Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NÖRDLINGEN Gutschein über 50 Pfennig Nördlingen am 2. Okt. 1918 fünfzig Pfennig Stadtmagistrat rechtsk. Bürgerm. |
| Reverse description | Orange and purple notgeld on a repeated-text underprint matching the obverse. Central black-and-white intaglio-style vignette depicts the medieval Löpsinger Tor tower-gate of Nördlingen viewed from a slight diagonal, with surrounding city wall, gatehouse, and foliage. Denomination '50 Pfennig' in bold gothic type flanks the vignette on both sides. |
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Nördlingen issued this note in 1918 under the same emergency authority that drove hundreds of German municipalities to produce their own small-denomination scrip when coins vanished from circulation during the war. The Stadtmagistrat — the city's municipal magistracy — was one of countless local bodies scrambling to fill the void left by hoarded and melted coinage. What distinguishes the Nördlingen series is the town's own peculiar geography: Nördlingen sits inside the Ries crater, one of the best-preserved meteorite impact structures in Europe, and civic pride in that distinction shows up in the local paper culture of the period.
The DeNG 2#978.7 reference places this within the second volume of the standard Deutsches Notgeld catalog, Bavaria section.