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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindevorstand Blumenthal (Hannover) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDEVORSTAND BLUMENTHAL HANN. Rathaus Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in den hiesigen Zeitungen. Dieser Gutschein wird bei der Gemeindekasse in Blumenthal gegen Nennwert eingewechselt. Blumenthal (Hann.), den 23. August 1920. Der Gemeindevorstand. 50 Pfg. |
| Reverse description | Black and red letterpress design with a scalloped white inner border and a decorative upper frieze of stylised red flowers and bell-shaped blossoms flanking a central red-framed denomination tablet reading '50 PFG.' The main central vignette presents a panoramic engraved view of the Blumenthal townscape across a broad river, with sailing vessels, industrial smokestacks, and church spires rendered in fine line work. At the foot of the note a red serial number panel is flanked by scroll ornaments, with the printer's imprint 'DRUCK: HERM. SEUBERT BLUMENTHAL.' in the lower margin. |
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Blumenthal was a small industrial town on the Weser, north of Bremen, that issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. This 50 Pfennig note was produced by Herm. Seubert, a local printer, which was common practice for municipal Notgeld: towns contracted whoever was available nearby rather than specialist security printers.
The Gemeindevorstand, the municipal executive board, held issuing authority here — not a bank or a chamber of commerce, which places this squarely in the administrative Notgeld tradition rather than the commercial. Blumenthal was absorbed into the city of Bremen in 1939.