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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Detmold (City of Detmold) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue of the Stadt Detmold, with the city name rendered in large Gothic blackletter script at centre, surmounted by the inscription "Notgeld der Stadt" in smaller script. The central vignette presents the heraldic coat of arms of Detmold — a crenellated gateway with flanking towers on a red field — framed by elaborate foliate scrollwork in dark ink. Denomination numerals "50 Pfg." appear in shield-shaped cartouches on both the left and right margins, flanked by decorative red and grey panels; a serial number, issuance location, redemption text in red letterpress, and manuscript signatures of city officials appear in a lower panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | WEH: DAS WAR EIN GROSSES MORDEN · SIE ERSCHLUGEN DIE KOHORTEN · NUR DIE ROM'SCHE REITEREI RETTETE SICH IN DAS FREI · DENN SIE WAR ZU PFERDE· 50 Pf. |
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Detmold's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by mid-1920, hundreds of towns were commissioning local printers to cover the chronic small-change shortage that the Reichsbank had failed to address since the war. Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was one of the regional printers that absorbed much of this overflow work, supplying notes to municipalities well outside its immediate area.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented series, which at least confirms it wasn't a speculative reprint issued purely for the collector trade — a problem that plagued Notgeld cataloging throughout the 1920s.