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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Todtnau (City of Todtnau) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1328.1-2/6 |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Todtnau Waisch, wo der Weg zuem Gulden isch? Er goht de rote Chrüzere no, Und wer nit uf e Chrüzer luegt, der wird zuem Gulde schwerli cho Joh. Peter Hebel Todtnau i. Wiesental, 31. Okt. 1921 Der Bürgermeister Keller Dieser Schein verliert am 1. März 1922 seine Gültigkeit |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse is centred on a large rectangular vignette enclosing a circular landscape scene of a waterfall amid rocky woodland terrain, rendered in a fine illustrative style. Decorative foliate scroll ornaments run vertically along both lateral margins. The heading 'Notgeld der Stadt Todtnau' in Gothic letterpress is set at the top, with denomination medallions '50 Pf' in circular cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners. |
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Todtnau is a small Black Forest town in Baden, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage that had plagued everyday commerce since the war. The Stadt Todtnau series sits within a vast category of Notgeld that were often printed locally or by regional printers on whatever paper stock was available, making individual items within the same series variable in paper quality and ink density.
The DeNG reference 1328.1-2/6 suggests this is one of multiple variants within the issue, likely distinguished by serial number range, date, or minor typographic differences — a common pattern in municipal Notgeld documentation.