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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Helmarshausen (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 85 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-green on white paper, the obverse is enclosed within a decorative ruled border with corner ornaments. The denomination '50 Pf' appears in a shaded box at upper left and repeated at lower right, flanking the town name 'Helmarshausen an der Diemel' set in bold Gothic lettering above the word 'Notgeld'. To the right, a line-engraved vignette illustrates the pilgrimage church at Gottesbüren amid trees and a river landscape, captioned below 'Wallfahrtskirche Gottesbüren bei Helmarshausen a/d Diemel'. The note bears the issue date of 15 May 1921, the validity clause 'Gültig bis zum 1. März 1922', the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat', a circular municipal seal, and two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pf Helmarshausen an der Diemel Notgeld Gültig bis zum 1. März 1922 Helmarshausen, den 15. Mai 1921 Der Magistrat Wallfahrtskirche · Gottesbüren · bei · Helmarshausen · a/d · Diemel |
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Helmarshausen is a small town on the Diemel River in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, historically significant as the medieval home of the monk Theophilus Presbyter, whose 12th-century technical treatise on crafts and goldsmithing made the scriptorium there briefly famous across Europe. By 1921, the town's magistrat was doing something far more mundane: issuing emergency Kleingeldscheine to compensate for the chronic small-coin shortage that plagued Weimar Germany in the inflation years before the currency collapsed entirely.
Helmarshausen notgeld tends to be overlooked by collectors focused on the more elaborate artistic series from larger municipalities.