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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Remscheid (City of Remscheid) |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in steel blue on a pale underprint repeating the text "STADT REMSCHEID 1917" throughout. A central octagonal vignette depicts an allegorical female figure seated alongside a young child, with an industrial factory skyline visible in the background, evoking Remscheid's manufacturing heritage. Octagonal denomination panels bearing the numeral "50" flank the central vignette at left and right, and the entire composition is enclosed within an intricate lace-like guilloche border. |
| Reverse lettering | STADT REMSCHEID 1917 |
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Remscheid's Notgeld issues of 1920–21 belong to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — not the desperate scrip of 1914–15, but the more calculated small-change substitutes produced when coin shortages persisted well into the Weimar period. The city was a heavy industrial center in the Bergisches Land, best known for tool and cutlery manufacturing, and its administration issued these notes through the local savings institution rather than a commercial bank.
Paper Notgeld of this denomination and period circulated hard and typically shows it. Remscheid's issues were not printed for collector series, which kept production quality functional rather than ornate.