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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nördlingen (City of Nördlingen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries a panoramic vignette of the Nördlingen townscape rendered in a bold woodcut-like style, dominated by the tall tower of St. Georg's Church rising above the medieval rooflines and town walls, framed by a decorative arched border with a coloured rainbow motif; the denomination numeral '50' appears at each upper corner. The lower section is divided into three panels: the left and right panels bear the voucher inscription 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG PFENNIG' within hatched borders, while the central pink panel carries the issuer legend 'NORDLINGEN / RAT DER STADT' above a manuscript signature with the printed title 'RECHTSK. BÜRGERMEISTER'. |
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| Reverse description | The central panel, set against a vertically lined underprint, bears the voucher text 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNFZIG PFENNIG.' followed by the validity clause 'GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921.' and the place-and-date inscription 'NÖRDLINGEN 1. DEZ. 1920'; a serial number appears at the base of the central panel. Flanking the central cartouche on both left and right are elaborate vignettes of ornate classical colonnade structures with Corinthian capitals and decorative scrollwork, rendered in a detailed lithographic style, all enclosed within the note's characteristic dashed outer border. |
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Nördlingen's 50 Pfennig Notgeld of 1920 belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency coinage-substitutes issued across Germany during the coin shortage that followed the First World War. What distinguishes Nördlingen's issues from the anonymous mass of Kleingeldersatz is the town's setting: built entirely within the nearly circular impact crater of a 15-million-year-old meteorite strike, a geological fact that local officials and printers occasionally acknowledged in Notgeld artwork of the period.
The DeNG reference suffix 4/4 indicates this is the fourth variant of the fourth printing sequence — useful for pinpointing exactly where this piece falls within Nördlingen's documented emission series.