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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt 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 50 PFENNIG WESTERBURG 1. DEZEMBER 1920 DER MAGISTRAT NACH DER BEKANNTMACHUNG IM WESTERBURGER KREISBLATT- MONATE UNGÜLTIG GEWORDEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels by a decorative bramble-branch framework with floral ornaments. The wide central panel carries a lithographic vignette of the Irmtrautsche Vasallenhaus, a rugged rocky outcrop rendered in blue-grey tones, captioned above the image; the narrow left panel bears the red tower-and-shield arms of Westerburg above the red numeral 50, while the right panel carries a coloured heraldic shield above a matching red numeral 50. The printer's imprint is set in small type along the lower margin. |
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Westerburg is a small town in the Westerwald, and this note belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922 as chronic coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The Magistrat issued these locally rather than wait for a central solution that was slow in coming. Albert Fastenrath in Elberfeld was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is entirely typical of how municipalities solved the problem: quickly and practically, with whoever was available.