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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Diez (City of Diez) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Diez Dieser Schein verliert die Gültigkeit 3 Monate nach der Aufkündigung in den Diezer Zeitungen. Diez, Dezbr. 1920 Der Magistrat: |
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| Reverse lettering | TENUI PENDENTIA FILO. DIETZ Nassauisch. Cernis ut à tenui filo dependeat Orbis Omniu hic humana citæ sunt prona ruinæ. Dell menschlich ding auf dieser Weldt, Das Leben selbst sampt Gut und Geldt. Darnach uns doch so sehr verlangt, An einem dünnen faden hangt. |
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Diez, a small town on the Lahn river in Nassau, issued this note as part of the Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The federal government's inability to produce sufficient small-denomination coinage in the postwar years forced thousands of towns — some with populations under a few thousand — to print their own emergency fractional currency. Stadt Diez was one of hundreds of issuers in the Rhineland-Nassau region doing exactly this simultaneously.
Most municipal Notgeld of this type was redeemed and pulped within a year or two of issue, though collector demand had already begun inflating print runs by 1920.