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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Kirn (City of Kirn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress Notgeld note with an ornate oak-leaf and ribbon border with Iron Cross motifs at each lower corner. The central vignette presents the heraldic shield of Kirn — a red field charged with two gold lions rampant flanking a silver chevron — surmounted by a mural crown, all within a wreath of oak leaves and red garlands. The denomination '50' appears in a gilt cartouche at the top centre, flanked by the Gothic-script legend 'Fünfzig Pfennig', with a validity clause at the left and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature at the right; a ribbon scroll at the lower centre bears the town name 'Kirn am Nahe' in red Gothic lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dich Nahe bleibe Deutsch unser Land Besch... das ... So feste wie die Felsen am Nahestrang NUNQUAM 50 Pf. |
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Kirn, a small town on the Nahe River in the Rhineland, issued this note during the peak of Germany's Kleingeldnot — the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage that crippled everyday commerce in the early Weimar years. Municipal and commercial authorities across thousands of German towns stepped into the gap, producing their own emergency fractional currency (Notgeld) with whatever local printing resources were available.
J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was a regional printer who handled Notgeld contracts for multiple small issuers during this period. The Lindenberg connection is purely commercial — no local significance to Kirn whatsoever.