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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Burgsteinfurt (City of Burgsteinfurt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 1923 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width multicolour vignette of a lively historical street scene set before a row of tall townhouses, centred on a horse-drawn carriage surrounded by a crowd of figures in period costume. The upper register bears the Gothic-script legend Zum sechsten within a hatched banner, while the lower register carries the descriptive caption Die Rückkehr der Königsdeputation v. Paderborn in matching Gothic lettering, identifying the scene as the return of the royal deputation from Paderborn. |
| Reverse lettering | Zum sechsten Die Rückkehr der Königsdeputation v. Paderborn |
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Burgsteinfurt's 1921 notgeld issue came out of the same postwar emergency that flooded Germany with thousands of municipal small-change substitutes — but this one has a more specific paper trail than most. The design was produced by Hermann Schreibel of Bitterfeld, a commercial artist and small-press operator who supplied notgeld artwork to several Westphalian municipalities during the 1920–1921 peak of the small-denomination shortage, while the actual printing was handled by Hartfisch & Lange in Eberstadt.
That division between designer and printer, across two different towns, was common enough in the notgeld trade but makes provenance attribution messier than the notes themselves suggest.