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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Stöckheim (Northeim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Wechselschein von Stöckheim Fünfzig Pfennig Ernst ist das Leben u. heiter die Kunst Und wem Gott will rechte Gunst erweisen den schickt er recht viel Notgeld. Dann ist für ihn das Leben heiter weñ er es nur zusammenhält. Die Gültigkeit wird im Kreisblatt amtlich bekanntgegeben. Gemeindevorsteher Stöckheim, den 17. November 1920 50 |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg 50 Pfg Die lustigen Musikanten |
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Stöckheim, a small village within the Northeim district of Lower Saxony, was one of hundreds of German municipalities forced to print their own emergency currency after the central money supply collapsed under postwar inflation pressures. The Northeim district alone produced notgeld from dozens of towns, most of which saw only weeks of genuine local circulation before being redeemed or simply pocketed by collectors — a known problem by 1920, when municipalities were already printing specifically for that philatelic demand.
The watermarked paper is notable for a note of this size and issuing authority. Most comparable municipal notgeld relied on plain stock.