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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Monschau |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Lütkens |
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| Reverse description | Teal-blue and multicolour note with a central panoramic vignette of the town of Monschau, showing timber-framed houses lining a river valley with the ruins of Monschau Castle rising above wooded slopes. Teal side panels carry patriotic German verses in Gothic script, with the denomination '50 Pfennig' placed in each lower corner. A further verse in Gothic lettering runs along the lower margin beneath the townscape vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Kreis Monschau Deutsch im Herzen Deutsch im Lieben Deutsch gesinnt und Deutsch geblieben. 50 Pfennig Fernab vom Getriebe im Deutschen Westen zählt man mich zu den Schönsten und Besten. |
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Monschau, a small town in the Eifel region near the Belgian border, was part of the occupied Rhineland zone after 1918, which complicated the movement of Reichsbank currency and made locally issued Notgeld genuinely necessary rather than merely speculative. The Kreisausschuss — the district committee — rather than a municipal body, suggests this was a county-level issuance covering the broader Monschau Kreis, a mountainous wool-weaving district already in economic decline before the war accelerated it.
Lütkens is credited as designer, though nothing in the surviving Notgeld literature firmly establishes whether this was a local commission or a print house staff credit. The 1921 date places it among the later Serienscheine issues, well past the original emergency phase.