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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schopfheim (City of Schopfheim) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Schopfheim Fünfzig Pfennig Schopfheim, 1 April 1921 Nº 14292 Gemeinderat: Stadtverrechnung: dieser Schein verliert 1 Monat nach Aufruf im Schopfheiner Amtsblatt seine Gültigkeit. LITH. KUNSTANSTALT POPPEN & ORTMANN, FREIBURG I. B. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Schopfheim's 1921 Notgeld issue was one of thousands of municipal emergency notes produced during the post-WWI currency chaos, when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small-denomination coin and paper to keep local commerce moving. Poppen & Ortmann in Freiburg were active printers of regional Notgeld throughout Baden, and their lithographic work for smaller municipalities tended toward competent regional imagery rather than the elaborate collector-bait designs some cities commissioned deliberately to profit from the Notgeld craze.
The embossed municipal seal was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — cheap but locally authoritative. R. Specht's designer credit is uncommon enough to appear in specialist Notgeld references as a named local contributor.