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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Königswinter (City of Königswinter) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GEBURTSHAUS D. MALERS PROF. ITTENBACH. DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON DER KÖNIGSWINTERER BANK U. DER HONNEFER VOLKSBANK EINGELÖST. ER VERFÄLLT EINEN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTL. ANZEIGE KÖNIGSWINTER D. 1·11·21 KOENIGSWINTER FRZ. J. KRINGS 1527 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central text panel with an ornate scalloped and foliate green border, set against a blue ground, containing two rhyming stanzas in bold Gothic lettering attributed to H. DIPPEL, evoking romantic Rhine imagery. To the left stands a tall heraldic shield in white bearing a dark cross — the arms of Königswinter — surmounted by a cluster of arrow-tipped finials in black; to the right, a green pennant-shaped shield with a white vertical stripe is similarly crowned with stylised finials. Upper and lower borders carry undulating wave ornaments in blue and green. |
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Königswinter is a small Rhine town at the foot of the Siebengebirge, and this 1921 Notgeld issue is very much a product of the postwar small-change crisis that forced thousands of German municipalities to print their own emergency scrip. The central government's inability to supply adequate coin drove local authorities — cities, towns, even individual merchants — to issue notes that technically had no legal backing beyond local goodwill and the expectation of eventual redemption.
Frz. J. Krings as designer suggests local artistic commission rather than a professional printing house's stock template, which was common for smaller Rhineland communities seeking to produce something distinctive enough to appeal to the growing collector market that had already begun absorbing Notgeld as a secondary revenue stream by 1921.