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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Ettlingen, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt ETTLINGEN über FÜNFZIG PFENNIGE DER GEMEINDERATH 50 1921 Nach erfolgter Bekanntgabe. Der Gemeinderat dieser Gutschein wird an den Kassen Zahlung genommen. 1 Monat die Gültigkeit |
| Reverse description | Vibrantly printed in black, red, and gold, the reverse carries a large central vignette in a woodcut folk-art style showing a horse-drawn cart crowded with seated townspeople, with a jester figure crouching beneath the cart in the foreground. The composition is enclosed in a red-ground rectangular panel with a bold black outer border bearing a chevron-pattern frame. A two-line German verse motto appears above and below the vignette in Gothic lettering, and the designer's signature 'Schna' appears in pencil below the lower border. |
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Wilhelm Schnarrenberger was a Baden-based painter and graphic artist who contributed designs to several notgeld issues from the region during the early 1920s. His involvement here lifts this Ettlingen 50 Pfennig above the bulk of municipal emergency currency produced during the post-WWI coin shortage — most small-denomination notgeld was farmed out to commercial printers working from stock decorative templates, with no named artist involved at all.
Ettlingen, a small industrial town south of Karlsruhe, issued notgeld in 1921 as the ongoing metal scarcity forced hundreds of German municipalities to cover the gap in small change left by hoarding and official underprovision.