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50 centimes ville de Riquewihr
| Issuer | Ville de Riquewihr |
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| Year | 1914-1925 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress printing on yellowed paper stock, with a decorative rectangular border composed of repeated geometric ornamental units. The municipal arms of Riquewihr — a heraldic shield in red outline with a lion passant in red — are printed as a central underprint vignette. The denomination "50 Centimes" appears in bold twice at left and right, with the town name "VILLE DE RIQUEWIHR" across the top; a handwritten serial number appears at lower right, and a circular official cancellation stamp is applied in violet ink. |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE RIQUEWIHR 50 Centimes N°754 |
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Riquewihr is a small Alsatian wine town of perhaps a few hundred households, and in 1914 it sat inside the German Empire — Alsace had been annexed after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. These small municipal emergency notes, known as Notgeld, were issued by communes across German-held Alsace when wartime coin shortages made fractional currency impossible to obtain through normal channels. The span running through 1925 reflects the turbulence of reintegration: France recovered Alsace in 1919, and many local scrip issues remained in informal use during the transition period before the French monetary system fully absorbed the region.