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1⁄20 Fm. Buchenholz Wildungen
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Wildungen (Gemeindevorstand) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Printer | Paul Pusch, Bad Wildungen, Germany |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in teal-green ink on cream paper, framed by a decorative border of repeating diamond and geometric ornaments. The bold title legend 'Holzgutschein der Stadt Bad Wildungen' runs across the top, with the series designation and denomination '1/20 Fm. Buchennutzholz mittlerer Güte' set in large Gothic blackletter typeface in the upper field. The lower portion carries the full terms of redemption in justified text, the issuing date 'den 5. November 1923', and three manuscript signatures of municipal board members alongside a circular official municipal stamp. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on cream-coloured paper stock, showing only the natural texture of the paper with fold lines visible from circulation. |
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Bad Wildungen's 1923 Notgeld series was produced at the height of the Weimar hyperinflation, when German municipalities routinely commissioned local printers rather than waiting on an overwhelmed Reichsbank. Paul Pusch was a local firm — not an unusual choice for a spa town of this size, which had neither the budget nor the connections for a specialist printer.
The denomination in Buchenholz — beechwood — marks this as commodity-backed emergency scrip, a format that briefly flourished in timber-rich regions as paper currency lost all credibility. Whether any actual wood was ever exchanged against these notes is doubtful.