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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreis des Eisenbergs (Waldeck-Pyrmont), District of Corbach |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a stylised medieval tower above a semicircular arch bearing the legend KREIS DES EISENBERGS, CORBACH, with radiating lines extending outward in a sunburst pattern. Large red and dark-blue denomination numerals '50' appear in each corner with the abbreviation 'Pf.' in matching style. Vertical text panels at left and right carry redemption and validity clauses, with the issue date DEN 15. MAI 1921 and the printed authority line Der Kreisvorstand followed by a row of facsimile signatures below centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 PFENNIG 50 1218 1921 D. DTAG. 1921. W. WALDENBURG DES · KREISES · DES · |
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Waldeck-Pyrmont was one of the smallest sovereign states in the German confederation — absorbed into Prussia in 1929 — and its administrative districts issued Notgeld with the same bureaucratic earnestness as far larger authorities. This 50 Pfennig piece from the Kreis des Eisenbergs belongs to the 1921 wave of small-denomination emergency coinage substitutes, when chronic coin shortages following the First World War forced district and municipal authorities across Germany to print their own stopgap currency.
The Eisenberg district is named for the iron-bearing hills of the Waldeck region. Whether that geological identity influenced the note's design is a separate cataloging matter.