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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Horn in Lippe |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-green ground with the denomination numeral '50' in red at both upper corners above the legend 'PFENNIG'. At centre, a large circular vignette reproduces the historic municipal seal of Horn, rendered in red and showing a crenellated town gate with flanking towers, a six-petalled flower above, and the Latin legend 'SIGILLVM OPPIDANORVM HORN' with the founding year '1248'. Flanking text blocks carry the validity and redemption notices, while the lower register bears the issuing authority, date '1. NOVEMB. 1921', and five manuscript facsimile signatures of municipal officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 31. DEZEMBER 1921. DIESER SCHEIN WIRD EINGELÖST VON DER STADTKASSE IN HORN I.L. HORN IN LIPPE 1. NOVEMB. 1921 DER MAGISTRAT: DER STADTV.-VORSTEHER: SIGILLVM OPPIDANORVM HORN 1248 |
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Horn is a small town in the Lippe region of what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, and this note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded Germany between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of chronic small-denomination coin shortages that the Reichsbank could not address fast enough during postwar reconstruction. The Stadtkasse, literally the town treasury, issued these notes on its own authority, a practice permitted by necessity rather than by any coherent monetary policy.
Gustav Heynke and Kanne & Kühne in Detmold served numerous Lippe municipalities during this period, which makes print-run attribution across the region's Notgeld difficult to separate. Horn's issues are not among the rarer Lippe municipal pieces.