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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Itzehoe (City of Itzehoe) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note with an intricate guilloche underprint covering the entire field, framed by a decorative geometric border. The heading 'Stadt Itzehoe.' is set in Gothic blackletter at the top centre, with the denomination numeral '50' printed in large figures at each upper corner within ornamental cartouches. The central text reads 'Anweisung auf die Stadt Itzehoe für Fünfzig Pfennig' in blackletter script, followed by a redemption clause in smaller type, the issue date 'Itzehoe, den 2. August 1920', a red serial number at lower left, and the facsimile signature of Der Magistrat at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette in green, red, and brown, drawn by Jul. Nielsen of Itzehoe, illustrating a lively camp-market scene inspired by Schiller's 'Wallensteins Lager' (Act 5), with soldiers, a sutler woman, musicians, and camp followers grouped beneath a tree against a village backdrop. A Low German verse runs across the top and bottom borders, with a dialogue excerpt from the play printed in a column at the right, above the red heraldic shield of Itzehoe. The denomination '50 Penn' appears in a rectangular cartouche at upper right. |
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Itzehoe's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Germany following the post-WWI coin shortage — Reichsbank metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation as the public hoarded it. W. Gente was a Hamburg commercial printer with no particular numismatic pedigree, and the choice reflects simple geography rather than any official procurement process. Municipalities at this level often contracted whoever was local and available.
The DeNG reference covers two varieties (suffixed .1 and .2), suggesting either a serial number range division or a minor printing difference between runs — common in Gente's Notgeld output for Schleswig-Holstein issuers.