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50 Pfennig
| Uitgever | Gemeinde Scheeßel (Municipality of Scheeßel) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1921-1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | A central oval medallion encloses a village vignette of Scheeßel, with a church steeple rising above half-timbered houses, trees, and a horse-drawn wagon in the foreground, all set against a dark blue dotted underprint. The denomination '50 Pf.' appears in rounded cartouches at upper left and right, flanked by Art Nouveau foliate scroll ornaments. Below the vignette, a text panel states the redemption conditions and issue date of 1 October 1921, with a manuscript signature of the Gemeindevorsteher at lower right and the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
|---|---|
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | A large central oval medallion contains a full-length figure of a woman in traditional Scheeßeler Braut (Scheeßel bridal) folk costume, her elaborate floral headdress and layered dress rendered in blue and green tones against a fine dotted guilloche ground, with a curved inscription encircling the figure within the medallion. The issuer's name appears in bold Fraktur lettering on a banner across the top, flanked by stylised floral corner ornaments, while the denomination '50 Pf.' is repeated in arched cartouches at lower left and right. The composition is contained within a double-rule border with a dotted outer band. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Scheeßel is a small town in the Rotenburg district of Lower Saxony, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the early 1920s when chronic coin shortages made everyday commerce nearly impossible. The Hamburg firm Deutschländer & Co. Nachf. handled small-denomination Notgeld printing for numerous northern German localities during this period, producing runs that were typically modest in scale and local in distribution.
These issues were rarely redeemed in full. Many were deliberately collected rather than spent, which paradoxically makes surviving examples more common than their limited print runs might suggest.