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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Kamen (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a vignette at left depicting the leaning tower of the Kamen church (Propsteikirche) alongside a half-timbered house, rendered in a bold woodcut-style letterpress impression. To the right, a four-line verse in Gothic Fraktur script occupies the central field against a light guilloche underprint, with the denomination numeral '50' and the word 'Pfennig' set in large type at the upper and lower right. The issuing authority inscription, date 'Kamen, den 1. April 1920', and two facsimile signatures with titles appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Pfennig Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung in der Kamener Zeitung zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. |
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Kamen is a small Westphalian coal-mining town, and its 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the massive wave of municipal emergency money printed across Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small denominations in circulation during postwar inflation. The Magistrat had no special printing authority — like hundreds of similar towns, it simply filled a practical gap.
Nothing in the available record distinguishes this particular issue from the broader Westphalian municipal run. One note, one town, one unremarkable administrative decision made during a chaotic monetary year.