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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Butzbach (Stadtkasse Butzbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Butzbach Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennig 600 jähriges Stadtjubiläum 1321-1921 50 Pfennig Urkunde durch die am 10. August 1321 dem Ort Butzbach durch Ludwig von Bayern Stadtrechte verliehen wurden Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt durch die Stadtkasse in Butzbach der Zeitpunkt mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht werden Der Bürgermeister Butzbach, den 6. Mai 1921 Scharfes Druckereien, Wetzlar Landgraf Phillipp von Butzbach |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central landscape vignette captioned '19. Jahrhundert' showing a view of the 'Kaserne der Leibdragoner' (Dragoon Guards barracks), with two round towers flanking a central building; a circular inset within the vignette shows a group of mounted dragoon cavalry. The left border bears the numeral '50' within a hexagonal guilloche panel flanked by small agricultural and craft scenes, while the right border carries the town's heraldic arms in colour within a matching hexagonal panel. The legend 'Der Segen der Wetterau' appears in both upper border corners, and the serial number is printed in a pale oval panel at the bottom centre. |
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Butzbach issued this note through its Stadtkasse — the municipal treasury — during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s before hyperinflation made the entire denomination structure irrelevant. Thousands of German municipalities did the same, producing what collectors now classify as Notgeld, emergency money with no central bank backing and wildly varying print quality.
Scharfes Druckereien in Wetzlar handled a substantial volume of Hessian municipal Notgeld during this period, and their output is generally consistent — competent regional commercial printing rather than anything artistically ambitious. The DeNG reference suffix variants (.1a through 3/8) indicate paper or color differences within the same basic printing run.