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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Köln (City of Cologne) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Köln Gutschein über 50 Pfennig No Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit am 15. August 1922. Die Stadtgemeinde Köln haftet für die Einlösung Köln, den 12. Januar 1922 Der Oberbürgermeister: SIEGEL DER STADT KÖLN |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadt Köln Pfennig Pfennig 1922 |
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Cologne's postwar municipal finances were stretched well beyond what Reichsbank supplies could cover, and by 1922 the city — like hundreds of German municipalities — was printing its own fractional emergency money. What makes this note more than routine Notgeld is the signature: Konrad Adenauer, then serving as Oberbürgermeister of Cologne, a post he held from 1917 until his forced removal by the Nazis in 1933. He would later become West Germany's first Federal Chancellor in 1949.
Printed locally by J. P. Bachem, a Cologne-based Catholic press and publisher with deep roots in the city, not an outside security printer.