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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Herne (City of Herne), Westfalen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 96 × 71 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in ochre, grey, and black on cream paper in a Jugendstil-influenced illustrative style. The central vignette shows a full-length armoured medieval knight standing in a round-arched stone gateway, holding a shield inscribed with a Low German verse; the city arms surmount the arch above. Circular denomination cartouches reading '50 Pfg.' flank the composition at left and right, while a scrolling ribbon along the lower margin carries the redemption text and the issuing date, with a manuscript signature of the Magistrat at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in ochre, grey, and black on cream paper, presents a vigorous line-art scene of a mounted knight halting a horse-drawn covered wagon on a forest road, with armed foot-soldiers in the middle ground and tall conifers filling the right half of the composition. A scrolling banner across the upper portion carries a four-line Low German verse, with the denomination '50 Pfennig' stated at upper right; a denomination cartouche '50 Pfg.' appears at upper left, and the series number '2' is placed in the top-left corner. |
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Herne was a rapidly industrializing Ruhr coal town in 1921, and like hundreds of German municipalities that year, it issued its own Notgeld to address the acute small-change shortage as hyperinflation began dismantling the national currency. What sets many of these civic emissions apart is the printing arrangement: Herne contracted Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau, Saxony — a specialist Künstlerdruck (artist-print) house operating well outside the issuing municipality's region.
The designer credit to Schleinitz is the kind of detail that separates a commissioned artistic series from a purely utilitarian scrip issue.