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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Dinslaken (City of Dinslaken) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and cream Notgeld voucher with a wave-pattern guilloche border. A circular vignette at centre displays the medieval gate tower of Dinslaken; denomination numeral 50 appears in large Gothic script flanking the vignette left and right. Date and mayoral signature line appear at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Dinslaken 50 No. 26901 Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach amtlicher Aufkündigung im Kreisblatt. GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN. |
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Dinslaken's 1920 Notgeld issue was part of the vast municipal emergency currency wave that swept Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation during the postwar inflation spiral. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich printed for dozens of municipalities simultaneously during this period, making their output recognizable to specialists by paper stock and typographic conventions even when issuer marks are worn.
Parcus-printed Notgeld tends to hold up physically better than many competing houses of the era — their ink adhesion was notably consistent. The Dinslaken 50 Pfennig is a modest issue from a minor Ruhr-area industrial town, unremarkable in its series but useful as a documentary artifact of how localized Germany's monetary patchwork had become by 1920.