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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Königswinter, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green and blue tones, with the denomination numeral '50' in large script set within vertical olive panels at left and right, each bearing the 'Pf.' abbreviation below. The central vignette presents a panoramic landscape view across the Rhine towards Drachenburg and Drachenfels, rendered in a stylised art nouveau manner with a broad blue river in the foreground and rolling hills beyond. Below the vignette, a cartouche with a wavy decorative border contains the redemption text in bold lettered script, with the town name 'KOENIGSWINTER' in large white capitals along the lower margin; the designer's name 'FRZ. J. KRINGS' appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | AN DEN RHEIN, AN DEN RHEIN, ZIEH' NICHT AN DEN RHEIN, MEIN SOHN, ICH RATE DIR GUT, DA GEHT DIR DAS LEBEN ZU LIEBLICH EIN, DA BLÜHT DIR ZU FREUDIG DER MUT! SIEHST DIE MÄDCHEN SO FRANK U. DIE MÄNNER SO FREI, ALS WÄR' ES EIN ADLIG GESCHLECHT, GLEICH BIST DU MIT GLÜHENDER SEELE DABEI, SO DÜNKT ES DICH BILLIG UND RECHT. UND ZU SCHIFFE, WIE GRÜSSEN DIE BURGEN SO SCHÖN U. DIE STADT MIT DEM EW'GEN DOM! IN DEN BERGEN, WIE KLIMMST DU ZU SCHWINDELNDEN HÖHN U. BLICKEST HINAB IN D. STROM! KARL SIMROCK |
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Königswinter's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point, many towns were treating Kleingeldscheine less as a stopgap and more as a local revenue source, selling sets to collectors who never spent them. Krings' involvement suggests the city commissioned the design locally rather than relying on a Leipzig or Berlin printing house's stock imagery, which was common practice among smaller Rhine towns during the period.
The 90 × 60 mm format places it among the smaller Notgeld pieces of the era, consistent with the inflationary pressures that were already compressing production budgets in 1921, a full two years before the hyperinflationary peak.