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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eldagsen (City of Eldagsen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 February 1922 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a polychrome vignette of the Eldagsen townscape occupying the upper two-thirds of the note, rendered in a folk-art lithographic style and framed by an arched border with radiating sunburst motifs at the apex; denomination numerals '50' appear in red on yellow squares at upper left and right. A church tower with a pointed spire rises above the rooflines of the town's buildings set among lush green trees. Below the vignette, a cream-coloured text panel carries a six-line rhyming verse in German relating to the town's local products. |
| Reverse lettering | Stiefel, Senf und Honigkuchen, Mußt du in unserm Städtchen suchen, Von diesen drein haben wir sehr viel, Drum nimm Eldagsen dir zum Ziel. Bezahlst du dort mit großen Scheinen Erhälst zurück du diese Kleinen. |
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Eldagsen was a small market town in the Hannover region that issued notgeld during the postwar inflationary spiral like hundreds of other German municipalities scrambling to plug the coin shortage. What distinguishes many Eldagsen pieces from the mass of generic civic notgeld is their deliberate regionalist character — local series from this area frequently referenced Calenberg district history and folklore rather than defaulting to patriotic imagery.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented series, but Eldagsen notgeld is not aggressively collected and trades quietly. Worth noting for completeness in any Lower Saxon notgeld holding.