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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat zu Fallersleben |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Orange and dark blue Notgeld coupon printed by letterpress within an ornate floral and scroll border enclosing a central circular vignette bearing the rampant heraldic lion of Fallersleben surrounded by the legend MAGISTRAT ZU FALLERSLEBEN. Two amber cartouches in the upper corners carry respectively the validity date and the place name with issue date 1. Oktober 1920 and a facsimile Bürgermeister signature. The lower register presents the denomination numeral 50 at each lateral margin flanking a bold Gothic-script inscription Gutschein von Fallersleben, with patriotic verse text in two columns disposed on either side of the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig bis 1. Oktober 1921 Fallersleben 1. Oktober 1920 Bürgermeister MAGISTRAT ZU FALLERSLEBEN Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit für das deutsche Vaterland — danach laßt uns alle streben brüderlich mit Herz und Hand 50 Gutschein von Fallersleben 50 |
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Fallersleben is a small town now absorbed into Wolfsburg, but in 1920 it carried one distinction that made its municipal scrip slightly more than routine Notgeld: it was the birthplace of August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who wrote the text of what would eventually become the German national anthem. Whether the Magistrat considered this when commissioning the issue is unrecorded, but the town's identity was inseparable from that association by the Weimar period.
Appelhans in Braunschweig was a prolific regional printer of municipal emergency currency during this period, supplying dozens of Lower Saxon communities during the postwar small-change shortage.