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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Todtnau (City of Todtnau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in dark red on cream paper, with the title legend in decorative Gothic blackletter script across the upper portion. To the upper left, a vignette of a standing medieval figure set within an ornate shield cartouche; to the upper right, the denomination numeral "50" within a circular guilloche border. The central panel carries a four-line dialectal verse attributed to Johann Peter Hebel, set within a tinted rectangular field flanked by symmetrical scroll ornaments and circular rosettes at left and right. The lower portion bears the place-date "Todtnau i. Wiesental, 31. Okt. 1921", the mayoral title, and a facsimile signature, with the validity expiry notice printed along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in warm brown tones on cream paper, the reverse carries the same Gothic blackletter title legend "Notgeld der Stadt Todtnau" across the top, flanked by the denomination numeral "50" within circular guilloche medallions at each upper corner. The central composition presents a circular vignette of a local landscape scene with a wayside chapel or pavilion set among trees and rocky terrain, enclosed within a rounded rectangular frame. Symmetrical foliate scroll ornaments fill the lateral margins on both sides. |
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Todtnau is a small town in the Black Forest, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own Notgeld as federal coinage became hopelessly scarce during the postwar economic dislocation. The Stadt Todtnau series is catalogued under DeNG 1/2 with multiple varieties — the 1328.1 through 1328.5/6 range suggesting at least five or six distinct printings or design variants within the set, which is unusually broad for a town of this size.
Todtnau Notgeld is occasionally collected as a regional set rather than individually; the town's issues tend to trade in groups.