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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 lettering | STADT BARNTRUP IN LIPPE. Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach Aufkündigung. BARNTRUP Dies geschieht durch ortsübliche Bekanntmachung und in der Lippischen Landeszeitung. 20. November 1921. Der Magistrat Bürgermeister. Die Stadtv.-Versammlung Stadtv.-Vorsteher. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a colourful genre vignette in a folk-art illustrative style across its central field, showing three peasant farmers at work: a standing figure at left holds a coiled rope and raises a seed drill aloft, a crouching ploughman operates a wooden plough at centre, and a drover guides a white ox at right, all set against a rolling agricultural landscape with a village spire visible in the distance. A speech bubble above the left figure bears a local dialect caption. The upper margin repeats STADT BARNTRUP IN LIPPE. on a terracotta band, flanked at the corners by large ornamental numeral 50 vignettes. The lower margin is divided into two text panels in brown, carrying a four-line German verse in two columns referencing local agriculture and the Steneberg firm. Denomination cartouches reading Pfg. appear at the lower corners. |
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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.