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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Detmold (City of Detmold) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Detmold 50 Pfg. Detmold, Aug. 1920 Die Kämmereikasse löst diesen Gutschein ein: Er wird ungültig einen Monat nach öffentlicher Aufrufung Der Magistrat Der Bürgermeister Der Stadtkämmerer |
| Reverse description | The central vignette, rendered as a bold black silhouette within a rectangular frame, illustrates the Battle of Teutoburg Forest: Arminius raises his sword aloft as Cherusci warriors surge forward through dense woodland against Roman legions. Tall decorative lateral borders composed of stacked weapons, shields, and martial trophies in grey and red each carry a red shield with the numeral '50' in white, while letterpress verse inscriptions in capital Roman type appear above and below the vignette, evoking the Germanic triumph over Rome. |
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Detmold's 1920 Kleingeldschein issue belongs to the flood of municipal emergency currency that swept German towns during the coin shortage following WWI. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying small change — hoarding, metal requisitions, and postwar economic dislocation left ordinary commercial transactions nearly impossible without local substitutes.
The printer, Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce of Glauchau, was a municipal press rather than a specialist security printer, a detail that shows in the modest production values typical of Saxony's smaller civic printing operations contracted for Notgeld work.