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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eschwege (City of Eschwege) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre ground with a bold blackletter header reading 'Stadt Eschwege' and the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' in large red-accented Gothic script at the foot. The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Eschwege — a red shield bearing a white gatehouse with a foliate device above — suspended within a decorative foliate border of green ribbonwork interspersed with red roundels. To the left of the shield the inscription 'Notgeld-Schein' and to the right 'Der Magistrat' appear in blackletter, accompanied by a facsimile signature of the magistrate B. Stolzenberg. The printer's imprint 'Lith. u. Druck v. P. Israel, Wanfried a. W.' appears in small type at the lower right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-ochre ground divided horizontally: the upper two-thirds carry a full-width coloured vignette in the expressionist style of Ernst Netz, illustrating a lively open-air folk-dance scene with townspeople in traditional costume dancing in a chain against a background of half-timbered buildings and a church tower. The lower register, on a plain ochre panel, bears two lines of blackletter text reading 'Das Fest der Freude ist erschienen / Eschweger Johannisfest', flanked at left and right by small cartouches each containing the Eschwege city arms. The artist's signature 'Ernst Netz' is inscribed in the upper right corner of the vignette. |
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Eschwege's 1920 notgeld issue was designed by Ernst Netz and printed by P. Israel in the nearby town of Wanfried an der Werra — a hyperlocal arrangement typical of the notgeld boom, when German municipalities sourced printing from whatever regional press could deliver quickly. The signature of B. Stolzenberg appears as the authorizing official for the city.
Wanfried is barely fifteen kilometers from Eschwege, which made Israel a practical choice during a period when paper, ink, and press time were all in short supply across Germany's postwar economy.