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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Barntrup (City of Barntrup) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a multicolour letterpress style with a decorative outer border of interlaced ornamental scrollwork in brown and red. The upper and lower margins carry the inscription STADT BARNTRUP IN LIPPE. in capital letters against a terracotta band. The denomination legend Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennig is set in large bold Gothic typeface across the upper portion of the note. At centre, a circular vignette presents the polychrome municipal coat of arms of Barntrup, a quartered shield in red and yellow bearing a six-pointed star and a poppy flower, set against a dark black ground. Flanking texts in white on black panels detail redemption conditions, with the date 20. November 1921 at lower right. The lower zone, printed on a yellow ground, bears three manuscript facsimile signatures accompanied by the designations Der Magistrat / Bürgermeister and Die Stadtv.-Versammlung / Stadtv.-Vorsteher, along with a printed serial number. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT BARNTRUP IN LIPPE. 50 Eck kann blaus düsse Sorte verdregen van ,,Steneberg" In der Zeit der schweren Not, Wer schafft uns in Barntrup Brot? Einerseits die Landwirtschaft Die hier wuchert nicht noch rafft; Andererseits die Industrie Unserem Städtchen Ruf verlieh. Rauchstoff liefert echt und fein Firma Steneberg allein. Pfg. |
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Barntrup is a small town in the Lippe region of northwestern Germany, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it entered the notgeld market in 1920 not out of monetary necessity but largely because the collector trade had turned local emergency currency into a commodity. By that point the acute coin shortage that had justified early notgeld issues was easing — these later pieces were printed in deliberate excess for philatelic sale, often in complete series, with graphic ambition that bore no relation to their face value.
Gustav Heynke and Kanne und Kühne were both Detmold printers active in the regional notgeld boom, and Detmold's proximity to Lippe's smaller towns made it the natural production hub for issues like this one.