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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Westerburg (City of Westerburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | DAS NOTGELD DER STADT WESTERBURG IST WESTERBURG W. 50 PFENNIG WESTERBURG 1. DEZEMBER 1920 DER MAGISTRAT NACH DER BEKANNTMACHUNG IM WESSER-BURGER KREISBLATT UNGÜLTIG EINEN MONAT |
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| Reverse lettering | Schloss 50 50 Albert Fastenrath, Elberfeld, Aue 1-5 |
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Westerburg is a small town in the Westerwald, and its 1920 notgeld issue was one of thousands of emergency municipal denominations printed across Germany as coin shortages — exacerbated by postwar hoarding and metal requisitions — made small-change transactions nearly impossible. Albert Fastenrath in Elberfeld was a regional commercial printer, not one of the major security printing houses, and municipal contracts like this were bread-and-butter work during the notgeld boom years.
The reference number 1412.2-2/3 within the DeNG catalog indicates a specific plate variant within the Westerburg series — worth checking against the other listed variant if building a complete municipal set.