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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Kirn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A Weimar-era Notgeld emergency issue of the Stadt Kirn, denominated 50 Pfennig, executed in letterpress typography on plain paper stock. The face presents the issuing authority and denomination in period typeface, arranged within a structured text field characteristic of municipal emergency currency of the early 1920s. The overall layout is restrained and text-driven, with no ornamental vignette or guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears printed text setting out the legal validity conditions and terms of redemption governing this emergency issue, formatted in the standardised style adopted by German municipal Notgeld issuers during the 1920 period. The composition is entirely typographic, without decorative border or pictorial element. |
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Kirn, a small town on the Nahe River in Rhineland-Palatinate, issued this note as part of the vast Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The printer, J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu — a village in Bavaria far removed from the Nahe region — was one of several provincial printers who built a minor industry supplying emergency currency to towns that lacked local printing capacity. Lindenberg is better known as a center of hat manufacture than banknote production, which gives some indication of how broadly the Notgeld contracts were distributed.
Kirn's issues from this period are not among the rarer municipal Notgeld, but the Schwarz imprint is worth noting for collectors tracking regional printer output.