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| Uitgever | Stadt Schwäbisch Gmünd (City of Schwäbisch Gmünd) |
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| Jaar | 1918 |
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| Waarde | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is executed in a rich polychrome design centred on an oval vignette framed by a dotted circular legend, enclosing a view of a medieval tower of Schwäbisch Gmünd set amid leafy foliage rendered in green and brown. The bold red Gothic legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig' is split across the central vignette, flanked on each side by the numeral '50' in red and by the Württemberg heraldic shield in black and white at the lower corners. The overall border is composed of densely interlaced oak-leaf ornaments in green, and the printer's imprint 'Kunstanstalt C. Jaeger, Schwäb. Gmünd' appears in small italics along the lower margin. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Gutschein der Stadt Schwäb. Gmünd Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Kunstanstalt C. Jaeger, Schwäb. Gmünd |
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Schwäbisch Gmünd's 50 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany from 1916 onward, when the hoarding of metal coins — driven by wartime commodity shortages — left ordinary transactions impossible. Cities, towns, and even individual businesses were forced to print their own small-denomination paper to keep local commerce moving. The imperial government tolerated rather than sanctioned it.
Printed by Kunstanstalt C. Jaeger, a local commercial art press in the same city, this is purely domestic production with no outside contractor involved — unusual only in how ordinary it was for the period.