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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Fürstenau (City of Fürstenau), Hannover, Germany |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels printed in dark blue-grey on cream paper. The two flanking panels each carry a diamond-shaped vignette with the denomination numeral '50' and the abbreviation 'Pf' in bold Gothic script. The central panel bears the city arms of Fürstenau — a heraldic shield enclosing a view of a medieval tower and town gateway with the founding year '1402' beneath it — set against a radiating sunburst underprint. Below all three panels runs a text band in flowing Kurrent script giving the redemption clause and the issuing authority, place, and date, with two manuscript signatures flanking the place-date line 'Fürstenau 6.12.21'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue-grey and steel-blue on cream paper and carries a large semicircular vignette occupying most of the field, showing the entrance gateway to Fürstenau Castle (Schloss) framed by tall bare-branched trees, with a caption 'Eingang z. Schloß.' inscribed within the scene. The denomination '50 Pfg' appears in bold Gothic numerals in the upper left and upper right corners. A lower banner in bold sans-serif capitals reads 'NOTGELD der STADT FÜRSTENAUiH', surmounted by an ornamental scrollwork frieze. |
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Fürstenau is a small market town in Lower Saxony, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 reflects how deep the postwar currency crisis had penetrated — even municipalities of minimal economic weight were compelled to fill the void left by the collapse of adequate small-denomination coinage. Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg handled a substantial volume of regional notgeld commissions during this period, printing for numerous Hannover-province towns with consistent typographic quality.
The DeNG reference suffix suggests this belongs to a paired or variant series — the "1-2/4" designation indicating at least two related types within the same issue sequence.