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| Issuer | Stadt Schopfheim (City of Schopfheim) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-toned notgeld note printed in dark brown and green by letterpress and lithography. A central circular vignette contains a bust portrait of a woman in traditional Black Forest costume with a Bollenhut headdress, set against an eight-pointed star underprint in green. The denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" is inscribed in large Gothic blackletter script flanking the vignette, with the issuer "Stadt Schopfheim" in bold lettering across the top. Below, the date "Schopfheim, 1. April 1921", a serial number, two manuscript signatures, and a validity clause are printed, with the city arms embossed at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-toned note printed in green and dark brown with a tripartite layout. The central panel bears an engraved portrait vignette of Johann Peter Hebel in three-quarter profile, a pipe in hand, with a rural Black Forest village scene in the background; his name and life dates "geb. 1760, gest. 1826" are inscribed below, with the artist's signature "R. Specht" at lower right. Flanking panels carry two-stanza quotations in Alemannic dialect rendered in Gothic blackletter script, all framed by a green ruled and dotted border. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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