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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Paderborn (City of Paderborn) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Black offset-printed notgeld on cream paper within a double-rule border carrying the issuing authority's name in the side margins. The central vignette, rendered in bold silhouette style, shows three figures — a seated woman at left, a standing musketeer in plumed hat at centre, and a crouching figure at right — framed by vertically hatched arch panels. The denomination 'FÜNFZIG PFENNIGE' is set in large decorative type across the upper field, with the date 'PADERBORN, DEN 10. NOVEMBER 1921' and the magistrate's facsimile signature below; the lower panel carries a four-line verse in Low German dialect flanked by the numeral '50' and the letter 'P' in ornamental cartouches. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, signed in the lower left margin by P. Michels, presents a detailed architectural vignette of the Cathedral of Paderborn (Paderborner Dom) viewed from its cemetery forecourt, with the twin Gothic spires rising through a rounded arch into an open sky. The denomination numerals '50' appear in large bold figures within ornate Art Nouveau floral side panels at left and right. The inscription 'FÜNFZIG PFENNIGE' runs across the top border, while 'FRIEDHOF' and 'DES DOMES' are lettered in the lower corners of the respective side cartouches. |
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Paderborn's 1921 Notgeld issue came out of the same inflationary emergency that pushed hundreds of German municipalities into printing their own fractional currency — Reichsbank coin had effectively vanished from circulation by late 1920, hoarded or melted as metal values outpaced face values. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a substantial share of this municipal work, and their production quality was generally a step above the cruder local printings seen elsewhere in Westphalia.
The designer credit to P. Michels is worth noting — named designers on Kleingeldscheine are uncommon enough that it suggests a deliberate commission rather than a stock plate adaptation.