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200 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Alsfeld (Stadtverwaltung Alsfeld) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#16.1-7/7 |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-toned note printed entirely in black, carrying a fine line-art vignette of the Walpurgiskirche in Alsfeld as seen over surrounding rooftops and trees, rendered in a detailed pen-and-ink illustrative style with an artist's monogram at lower right. The caption 'Walpurgiskirche.' is inscribed in the upper right corner of the vignette frame. The reverse is otherwise unadorned, without borders or additional text. |
| Reverse lettering | Walpurgiskirche. |
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Alsfeld's 1922 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the second wave of municipal emergency currency — by this point German cities had been issuing their own paper for several years, and the Stadtverwaltung was essentially filling a void left by the chronic shortage of small-denomination Reichsbank coinage. Scharffe Druckereien in Wetzlar handled a considerable volume of Hessian municipal notgeld during this period, and their output tends to be technically consistent if unspectacular.
The DeNG reference places this within a seven-variant series, suggesting Alsfeld issued across multiple dates or design states — collectors should confirm the specific variant against the suffix numeral.