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| Uitgever | Stadt Fritzlar (City of Fritzlar) |
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| Jaar | 1920 |
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| Waarde | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Tan-ground note printed in black letterpress, with the title legend in Gothic blackletter script running across the upper margin. A central rectangular vignette presents a historical or allegorical scene with figures and a wagon wheel, flanked on either side by circular medallions each enclosing the denomination numeral '50' within a dotted border. The lower portion carries the issue date, a validity clause, a printed serial number at lower left, and two manuscript signatures above the legend 'Der Magistrat:'. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Tan-ground note printed in black letterpress, dominated by a large line-engraved townscape vignette of Fritzlar in which St. Peter's Cathedral with its twin towers is visible through a gateway arch, flanked by medieval defensive towers. The denomination numeral '50' appears within circular cartouches at each of the four corners, and the title legend in Gothic blackletter script occupies the upper margin. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Fritzlar is one of the oldest towns in Germany — Boniface felled the sacred Donar Oak there in 723 AD — but this note's historical weight is entirely mundane: it exists because the postwar collapse of coin production left German municipalities desperately short of small change. The 1920 Kleingeldersatz wave produced thousands of such local Notgeld issues, most printed cheaply by local printers, circulating only within the issuing town and often redeemed quickly once federal coin supply stabilized.
Fritzlar's issues from this period are not among the scarcer Hessian municipal Notgeld — the town was small but administratively functional, and print runs appear to have met local demand without significant shortfall.