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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Erkelenz (City of Erkelenz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Stadt Erkelenz Dieser Gutschein wird von der Stadtkasse Erkelenz in Zahlung genommen und verfällt vier Wochen nach Aufkündigung im Erkelenzer-Kreisblatt. Erkelenz, 22. August 1921 Der Bürgermeister: 50 |
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| Reverse lettering | Erkelenz unter den Grafen von Geldern Anno 1326 Graf Reinhold überreicht die Stadturkunde 50 |
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Erkelenz is a small market town in the Rhineland, and its 1921 Notgeld series is typical of the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small denominations in circulation during the post-war inflationary spiral. The town's series was issued under the broad authority municipalities were granted to self-issue fractional currency — a decentralized stopgap that produced thousands of distinct local issues across Germany between 1918 and 1923.
The DeNG reference suffix "1/6" indicates this is one of six variants within the 348.1a grouping, differentiated by text, serial, or print detail — making complete set assembly the primary collector challenge here.