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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Butzbach (City of Butzbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | A Gothic-script banner across the upper field reads 'Notgeld der Stadt Butzbach' above the denomination line 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig'; at left, an oval portrait vignette of Landgraf Phillipp von Butzbach is set within a decorative cartouche with caption below, while at right a large illustrated scroll in handwritten script references the city charter granted by Ludwig den Bayern on 10 August 1321, accompanied by the commemorative inscription '600 jähriges Stadtjubiläum 1321–1921' and the bold numeral '50 Pfennig'. At centre-lower, a red wax seal vignette is flanked by the issue date 'Butzbach, den 6. Mai 1921' and a redemption notice, with the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Butzbach Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig 600 jähriges Stadtjubiläum 1321-1921 50 Pfennig Landgraf Phillipp von Butzbach Urkunde durch die am 10 August 1321 dem Ort Butzbach durch Ludwig den Bayern Stadtrechte verliehen wurden Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt durch die Stadtkasse in Butzbach der Zeitpunkt mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft, wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht werden Der Bürgermeister: Butzbach, den 6. Mai 1921 Scharfes Druckereien, Wetzlar |
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Butzbach is a small Hessian market town whose medieval walls were still largely intact when this note entered circulation during the Kleingeldnot — the small-change famine that gripped Germany as postwar inflation eroded coin production. Municipalities across the country issued emergency Kleingeldscheine to fill the gap, and Scharfes Druckereien in nearby Wetzlar printed several such series for communities throughout the region, keeping costs low through shared print runs and minimal typographic variation between issues.
The reference suffix "1a-6/8" indicates this belongs to a sequenced sub-series within the Butzbach issue — not a single note but one of a documented range, with minor plate distinctions separating them in specialist collections.