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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Norden (City of Norden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left portion carries the issuer title 'Stadt Norden' in bold Gothic blackletter above the voucher designation 'Gutschein Nr.' and a typeset serial number, with the denomination '50 Pfennige' set within an oval guilloche cartouche; a small vignette of a haloed saint bearing a shield and stars occupies the centre-left. The right two-thirds of the face are dominated by a finely detailed letterpress vignette of the Ludgerikirche (St. Ludger's Church) in Norden, rendered in architectural line work with yellow highlights on the stained-glass windows. Ornamental ruled borders frame the composition at top and bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Norden Gutschein Nr. über 50 Pfennige. |
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Norden, a small coastal town in East Frisia, was among hundreds of German municipalities that issued their own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — during the inflationary chaos following the First World War. The federal government's inability to supply adequate small-denomination coinage left local authorities with little choice. Stadt Norden's 1920 issue was printed entirely in-house by the local firm Siebold F. Siebolts, keeping production strictly regional in a way that distinguishes it from the mass-produced Notgeld series churned out by Leipzig and Berlin printers for larger cities.
Engraver H. Dorner's involvement is noted in the margins — rare for a note of this denomination and municipal origin, where printer credits were more common than named engravers.