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200 Pfennig
| Issuer | Alsfeld, City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 200 Pfennig (2.00) |
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| Reverse description | Cream-toned note printed in sepia with a fine stippled background, the entire face occupied by a detailed line-engraved vignette of Alsfeld's Marktplatz: the Gothic Rathaus with its characteristic stepped gables and tower at centre, flanked by receding timber-framed buildings that convey the historic character of the square. The caption 'Marktplatz.' is inscribed within the upper left corner of the vignette frame. |
| Reverse lettering | Marktplatz. |
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Alsfeld's 1922 Pfennig-denomination notgeld belongs to the tail end of Germany's municipal emergency money wave, issued as small-change shortages persisted well into the inflation period. Alsfeld, a small Hessian market town, contracted Scharfes Druckereien in Wetzlar for the job — a printer that handled notgeld commissions for numerous smaller Hessian municipalities during this period rather than the better-known Leipzig or Berlin firms.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.1–6/7) indicate multiple design or color variants within the series, a common Alsfeld notgeld characteristic that made these sets attractive to the contemporary collector market — itself a significant driver of notgeld overproduction by 1921–22.