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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Detmold (City of Detmold) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Detmold 50 Pfg. Detmold, Aug. Die Kämmereikasse löst diesen Gutschein ein. Er wird ungültig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung. Der Magistrat Der Oberbürgermeister Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce, Städteversand, Glauchau (Sachs.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central vignette in black silhouette style, signed by the artist, showing two figures — a fantastical creature in feathered costume and a traveller — facing one another against a plain ground. The side panels carry red heraldic shields with '50' numerals, surrounded by a dense array of drawn weapons and implements rendered in dark ink. A two-line quotation in sans-serif capitals runs above the vignette and a further two-line verse appears below, both referencing the Teutoburg Forest legend of Centurio Titiussen. |
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Detmold's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as small-change coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not struck in sufficient quantities to meet postwar demand. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was one of the regional printers that picked up substantial Notgeld contracts during this period, producing runs for multiple municipalities simultaneously, which kept unit costs manageable for cash-strapped local governments.
Detmold, as the capital of the Freistaat Lippe, issued under its own municipal authority rather than through a regional bank — a distinction that occasionally matters for redemption documentation.