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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Köln (City of Cologne) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 86 × 46 mm |
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| Reverse description | Tan-toned reverse with an overall stippled underprint in brown. Four circular medallions bearing the numeral '50' occupy each corner. At centre, an oval vignette illustrates a scene of two figures in traditional Cologne folk costume — a man and a woman — in a farewell embrace, captioned below 'JAN UN GRIET'. The inscription 'ABSCHIED' (Farewell) appears at the top of the vignette oval. Two rectangular text panels in Kölsch dialect are set to the left and right of the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | ABSCHIED Ich weil nen däftge Halfer hann met Oehß un Köh un Päd JAN UN GRIET 50 |
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Cologne's municipal Notgeld program was among the more administratively coherent in Weimar-era Germany — the city issued scrip in genuine response to the postwar small-change shortage rather than for the collector trade that was already corrupting many parallel series by 1921. M. DuMont Schauberg, the Cologne printing house, had deep roots in the city's press culture, primarily as a newspaper publisher; their involvement here was a practical choice of proximity, not prestige.
The 86 × 46 mm format is notably narrow for the denomination, a deliberate compression to reduce paper costs at a moment when raw material procurement was genuinely difficult for municipal budgets.