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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bürgermeisterei Wiebelskirchen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Bürgermeisterei Wiebelskirchen Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig Wiebelskirchen, den 7. Februar 1920. Gültigkeit bis einen Monat nach Aufruf in den Ortszeitzungen Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central oval vignette executed in fine intaglio line engraving, depicting an industrial coal mine complex with a prominent winding tower (headframe), a multi-storey brick pit-head building, rail tracks in the foreground, and slag heaps to the sides, all rendered in detailed black on a light ground. The oval vignette is set against a pale guilloche-patterned background and flanked at each corner by ornamental scroll cartouches. A serial number in bold Gothic numerals is printed below the vignette, and the printer's imprint appears at the lower right. |
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Wiebelskirchen was a small industrial commune in the Saar region, and its 1920 Notgeld issue came at a moment of acute administrative uncertainty — the Saar had just been placed under League of Nations administration following the Treaty of Versailles, severing the territory from direct German economic control. Municipal authorities across the region printed their own small-denomination emergency money partly to address coin shortages and partly to assert a kind of local economic continuity during the transition.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a large volume of Notgeld commissions from across southern Germany and the Saar during 1919–1921, producing notes for dozens of municipalities. Their involvement here is entirely routine — no engraving distinction worth noting.