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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Nesselwang (Market Town of Nesselwang) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Designer(s) | Heinz Schiestl |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green, red, and brown on cream paper, with '50' denomination numerals in red within dotted circular cartouches at left and right centre, set against green foliate side panels. A large central oval vignette rendered in fine line work presents a view of the Nesselwang parish church with its distinctive tower rising against a clouded sky. The issuer's name 'Marktgemeinde Nesselwang.' is inscribed in Gothic blackletter across the top, while the denomination in words 'Fünfzig Pfennig' appears in large red script lettering along the lower border, with the printer's imprint below. |
| Reverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Nesselwang. Fünfzig Pfennig DRUCK SCHWARZ LINDENBERG, ALLG. |
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Nesselwang is a small Bavarian market town in the Allgäu Alps, and like thousands of German municipalities in 1918, it issued its own Notgeld when the wartime metal shortage made small-denomination coinage effectively disappear from circulation. This note is unusual in that the designer, Heinz Schiestl, was a Würzburg-based artist and illustrator with a genuine reputation — his work appeared in Catholic devotional publications and he contributed to early German woodcut revival movements. His involvement in a minor local emergency issue from a printer in Lindenberg is the kind of incongruity that wartime commissions regularly produced.
J. Adolf Schwarz in Lindenberg im Allgäu handled a number of regional Notgeld printings during this period, serving the practical needs of towns that couldn't reach larger commercial printers.