Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ehrenbreitstein (City of Ehrenbreitstein) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels within a brown decorative border. The upper portion carries the issuing authority inscription in bold block lettering across the full width. The left and right panels each bear the denomination numeral '50' above the word 'PFENNIG' in large serif type, while the central panel presents the municipal coat of arms of Ehrenbreitstein — a crowned shield quartered with a red cross over a white field and a silver key on red, rendered in full colour. Lower left carries a validity clause in a framed text box, and lower right shows the place, date, and facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large engraved vignette occupying the right three-quarters of the note, rendered in fine line work by the engraver Ravland, showing a panoramic view of Ehrenbreitstein circa 1700 as seen from the Rhine — with the hilltop fortress complex, church tower, and town buildings rising above the rocky escarpment, and a sailboat on the river in the foreground. The left margin is filled by a decorative art nouveau panel incorporating interlaced strapwork and floral ornaments with the denomination numeral '50' at centre. A pale typographic underprint of the word 'NOTGELD' is visible across the upper field of the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Ehrenbreitstein was absorbed into the newly expanded city of Koblenz in 1937, which makes any municipal issue from its brief Weimar-era independence a document of a jurisdiction that no longer exists. This 50 Pfennig note was issued during the acute small-change shortage of 1921, when German municipalities routinely stepped in to fill the void left by a federal coinage system overwhelmed by inflation.
The strip format — 96 × 21 mm — is unusually narrow even by Notgeld standards, a format Schaar & Dathe of Trier used for several Rhineland municipal issues of this period. Signed by Wagner as Bürgermeister.