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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Zons (City of Zons) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre and grey-violet letterpress Notgeld. A central heraldic shield bears the city arms of Zons — a mounted Saint Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar — surmounted by a crenellated town gate, all framed by a scrolling ribbon banner. Denomination numerals '50' appear at left and right within decorative guilloche rosettes, with 'Pfennig' below each. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadtgraben. "Steinwand nur gibt Zeugnis alter Pracht Aufragend einsam aus der Zeiten Nacht!" 1. |
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Zons — the small medieval walled town on the Rhine south of Düsseldorf — issued this 50 Pfennig note during the Notgeld wave that followed Germany's post-WWI economic dislocation. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own emergency scrip between 1918 and 1922, but Zons was unusual in commissioning a named designer, H. Lütkens, giving the piece a deliberate artistic identity rather than the rushed typographic look common to smaller issuers.
Dr. Linnemann & Co. G.m.b.H. in Cologne handled the printing — a regional firm that took on substantial municipal Notgeld work during this period.