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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Herne (City of Herne) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Tan-ground Notgeld note printed in a woodcut-style letterpress technique. The central vignette presents a full-length armoured knight standing in a stone arched gateway, holding a shield inscribed with a Low German motto; the city coat of arms with a crown appears above the arch pediment. Two oval guilloche cartouches bearing the denomination '50 Pfg.' flank the composition left and right, while a scroll banner along the lower margin carries the payment obligation text, the issue date, serial number, and the facsimile signatures of the Magistrat. |
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| Reverse lettering | de Riautelnüser Büläger wär'n all lang sin Wiesen maide, Te riloten sick den wilden här'n Te stür'n in sine Freude. 50 Pfg. 50 Pfennig 4 |
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Herne's 1921 Notgeld series was one of hundreds of municipal emergency issues produced during the catastrophic postwar inflation that preceded the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923. The Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau specialized in Künstlerdruck — quality artistic printing — and supplied Notgeld to numerous municipalities across Germany during this period, which accounts for the relatively high production values common to these small-denomination civic issues.
The DeNG reference places this within a numbered series of four variants (1–4/10), suggesting Herne issued this denomination across multiple design types simultaneously — a common municipal strategy to encourage collector hoarding and reduce actual redemption pressure on the city treasury.