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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Marktmagistrat Ebersberg (Market Municipality of Ebersberg, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld issued by the Marktmagistrat Ebersberg, with a bold typeset central text panel enclosed within a decorative dashed-oval border frame with leaf ornaments at the corners. A large lightly printed guilloche numeral '50' serves as an underprint in the centre of the note, over which the denomination legend is printed in large bold letterpress. The issuer name appears at the top, the issue date at the bottom, and the printer's imprint below the outer border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktmagistrat Ebersberg. 50 Gutschein 50 über fünfzig Pfennige Ebersberg, 15. Dezember 1916. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. |
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Ebersberg's 1916 Kleingeldschein belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany after the Reichsbank's centralized coin supply collapsed under wartime metal demands. Towns and market municipalities across Bavaria issued their own fractional notes almost independently, often contracting local or regional printers without coordinating with any higher authority. J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a natural choice for Bavarian issuers — an established house with the capacity to turn around small municipal jobs quickly.
The 50 Pfennig denomination was among the most urgently needed, silver half-mark coins having vanished almost entirely from circulation by mid-1916.