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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Detmold (City of Detmold) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce, Glauchau, Germany |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette, rendered entirely in black silhouette on an unprinted ground, depicts three figures in a scene evoking the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest: a helmeted Roman soldier leads two captives bound by a rope, while a Germanic warrior brandishing a sword confronts them from the right. Flanking the vignette on each side are vertical decorative borders composed of stacked arms and trophies in dark olive tones, with red shield-shaped cartouches bearing the white denomination numeral '50'. A two-line inscription in Roman capitals runs above and below the central scene, quoting a literary passage relating to Scaevola serving in the Roman army. |
| Reverse lettering | IN DEM ARMEN RÖMSCHEN HEERE DIENTE AUCH ALS VOLONTÄRE SCAEVOLA EIN RECHTSKANDIDAT DEN MAN SCHNÖD GEFANGEN HAT · WIE DIE ANDERN ALLE · 50 |
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Detmold's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by postwar economic disorder. The Stadt Detmold contracted Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, a Saxon printing firm that handled Notgeld commissions for numerous municipalities during this period, rather than relying on a local press.
The reference suffix 7/10 indicates this is one of a set, almost certainly a thematic series — common practice among issuing towns that used Notgeld as a minor revenue stream by selling sets to collectors even as the notes nominally circulated.