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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Königswinter (City of Königswinter) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a two-colour (blue and olive-green) lithographed view of the birthplace of painter Professor Franz Ittenbach, a stepped-gable half-timbered house set among trees, captioned 'GEBURTSHAUS D. MALERS PROF. ITTENBACH.' below left. Flanking the vignette are two vertical olive-green panels each bearing the denomination numeral '50' above the abbreviation 'Pf' in bold script. The lower half carries a cartouche with scalloped border containing the redemption text dated 1.11.21 with a manuscript signature, and the designer's credit 'FRZ. J. KRINGS' at lower right; the town name 'KOENIGSWINTER' runs in large white capitals across the bottom blue border. |
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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 |
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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.