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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Boppard (City of Boppard) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT BOPPARD 50 PFENNIG STADT BOPPARD DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD BIS SPÄTESTENS EINEN MONAT NACH ANKÜNDIGUNG DURCH ORTSÜBLICHE BEKANNTMACHUNG EINGELÖST VON DER STADT KASSE IN BOPPARD BOPPARD DEN 31. DEZEMBER 1920. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on grey-tan paper. The upper register is occupied by a detailed panoramic vignette of Boppard viewed from the Rhine, rendered in fine line work with church spires, rooftops, and hillside vineyards in the background and the name BOPPARD visible on a vessel in the foreground water. Below the vignette, a stylised guilloche lozenge frames a circular white medallion bearing the bold numeral 50, with the printer's imprint Schaar & Dathe, Trier at lower left and the designer's name Rud. Stang at lower right. |
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Boppard's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as the Reichsbank's coin supply collapsed under wartime and postwar economic strain. Schaar & Dathe of Trier handled a significant volume of Rhineland Notgeld printing during this period, and their output for small Rhine valley towns is generally competent — the watermarked paper here being a modest but deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure for what was, after all, strictly local scrip.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.1-3/3) indicate multiple design or printing states within the series, worth distinguishing for completeness.