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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Niedermarsberg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt N. Marsberg Einst waren im Westfalenland Marsberger Groschen wohlbekannt Heut fehlt das Silber uns dafür, Drum machen Geld wir aus Papier Die Stadtsparkasse löst den Schein Bis zu dem Gültigkeitstag ein Doch wär es uns bedeutend lieber, Wenn wir es sehen garnicht wieder! 50 Pfg. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit 1 Monat nach öffentlicher Aufkündigung. N. Marsberg, Juli 1920, Stadtrat No 009676 Buchdruckerei Joh. Schulte, Marsberg |
| Reverse description | Dark-bordered reverse on a warm ground, divided into three registers. The upper band carries a four-line Fraktur verse in a cartouche. Below, two colour vignettes depict traditional Westphalian half-timbered houses with red-tiled roofs set against a sketched landscape background; the two scenes are separated by a central ornamental scrollwork cartouche. Large '50' numerals in black, set within ruled panels, anchor the upper-left and upper-right corners. |
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Niedermarsberg was a small Westphalian town that merged with Obermarsberg in 1975 to form the current city of Marsberg. This note belongs to the Notgeld wave of 1921, when German municipal authorities — facing chronic small-change shortages as coin metal stayed economically worthless — printed their own emergency pfennig denominations in enormous variety. The printer, Buchdruckerei Joh. Schulte, was a local press operating in the same town as the issuing authority, an unusual degree of locality even for Notgeld.
The DeNG reference places this within a three-variant series (1/1 through 1/3), meaning at least minor typographic or color differences exist between specimens — worth checking against a known example before cataloging confidently.