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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Bad Sooden an der Werra |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a colourful multicolour lithographic vignette of the historic town square of Bad Sooden, with half-timbered buildings and a church tower rendered in a painterly illustrative style against a blue sky with clouds. The town coat of arms dated 1552 appears in the lower left, while a second heraldic shield bearing a rampant lion is placed at the lower right, both flanked by ornate decorative side panels with interlaced foliate motifs. The Latin motto 'Deo volente humilis levabor' is inscribed in a banner across the top of the note, with a serial number printed in blue along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Deo·volente·humilis·levabor· APOTHEKE |
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Bad Sooden an der Werra is a small salt-spa town in Hesse whose Notgeld issues were among the more locally specific produced during the post-WWI emergency currency wave. The printer, A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, handled a considerable volume of municipal Notgeld contracts from across Germany during 1919–1921 — a Swabian firm printing emergency money for a Hessian spa town was entirely unremarkable at the time, as municipalities simply contracted whoever could deliver quickly.
Designer E. Metz is otherwise obscure in the Notgeld literature. Attribution survives only because small-run municipal issues of this period occasionally credited their designers in the margin, a practice that was inconsistent enough to make such credits genuinely useful for cataloging.