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 | Möllenbeck in Schaumburg, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| 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) | Rudolf Hillebrecht |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Möllenbeck Grafschaft Schaumburg ANNO X 1010 PATER-BRUNNEN Als Schaumburgs Ritter zogen in's heilge Land mit Zorn, Da sprudelt schon im Walde der alte Paterborn. EDLER & KRISCHE, HANNOVER |
| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the teal guilloche border and yellow '50' corner numerals of the obverse, with flanking arch-framed vignettes depicting a young woman in medieval dress at left and a nun in full habit at right. A musical staff with notes and the lyric 'Ins Kloster wollt sie gehen, wollt werden eine Nonn'' occupies the upper panel. The central vignette presents a detailed line-drawn view of the Möllenbeck convent church captioned 'Möllenbeck, freiadliges Nonnenstift von 896–1441', with the validity clause, issue date, and two manuscript signatures of municipal officials printed in the lower panel. |
| 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 |
Möllenbeck is a small village in the Schaumburg district of Lower Saxony, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1921 reflects how thoroughly the postwar coin shortage penetrated even the most rural German municipalities. The designer credited here, Rudolf Hillebrecht, later became one of postwar Germany's most prominent urban planners — he rebuilt much of Hanover after the Second World War — but in 1921 he was still in the early stages of his career, and occasional commercial work of this kind was not unusual for young designers in the region.
Edler & Krische, the Hanover printer, handled a considerable volume of Schaumburg-area notgeld during this period.