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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Siegburg (City of Siegburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely engraved panoramic vignette of Siegburg rendered in dark brown, showing the town's rooftops and church spires with the Michaelsberg Abbey crowning the wooded hilltop in the background. The central vignette is framed by an ornate green letterpress border with scrollwork arabesques and denomination numerals 50 positioned in cartouches at the upper corners and lower centre. Small heraldic shields appear in the lower left and lower right corners of the decorative frame. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 50 |
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Siegburg's 1921 Pfennig Notgeld belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — issued not during the acute wartime shortage of 1914–18, but during the inflationary spiral that followed. By 1921, the Reichsbank's coin production was failing to keep pace with rising nominal demand, and hundreds of German towns printed their own small-denomination notes to fill the gap in everyday transactions.
Siegburg, a small Rhenish town east of Cologne, was at this time under French occupation as part of the post-Versailles Rhineland administration. Whether that occupation complicated or simply ignored the local Notgeld apparatus is not documented here, but the geopolitical pressure on Rhenish municipal finances in this period was real.
Collectors should note that Siegburg Notgeld was issued in multiple denominations across 1919–1921, with subtle typographic differences between print runs.