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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Remagen (City of Remagen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with a decorative border of stylised green batons and gold ornaments. At centre, the Remagen municipal coat of arms in red and gold — a crowned griffin passant below a fortified gateway with towers — flanked by the denomination numerals "50" on each side. An official circular city seal appears at lower right, with the mayor's manuscript signature below the issue date. |
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| Obverse lettering | KRIEGSNOTGELD 50 (FÜNFZIG) PFENNIG DEN BETRAG FÜR DIESEN GUTSCHEIN ZAHLT DIE STADTKASSE IN REMAGEN OHNE LEGITIMATIONSPRÜFUNG DEM EINLIEFERER SPÄTESTENS BIS ZUM 31. MÄRZ 1920. REMAGEN, DEN 27. DEZEMBER 1918. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: STADT REMAGEN |
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Remagen's 1918 Kleingeldscheine were emergency municipal scrip issued to address the acute small-denomination coin shortage that gripped Germany as the war economy drained metal from circulation. M. Dumont Schauberg, the Cologne printing and publishing house better known for its newspaper interests, handled a considerable volume of Notgeld commissions during this period — a practical choice for municipalities in the Rhineland looking to avoid the bottleneck at more specialized security printers.
Remagen itself would become far more internationally known in March 1945, when American forces crossed the Rhine at the Ludendorff Bridge — but in 1918 it was simply a small Rhine town scrambling to keep commerce moving in its markets.