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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hachenburg (City of Hachenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is framed by a bold red and yellow rectangular border with red Art Nouveau foliate flourishes at each corner, and the denomination '50 Pf.' repeated in all four corners. A central oval vignette, outlined in red against a yellow ground, presents a woodcut-style panoramic townscape of Hachenburg, with the church steeple and rooftops visible above a foreground of trees and a river. The printer's imprint 'G. Hunckel, Bremen' appears in small type at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. G. Hunckel, Bremen |
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Hachenburg's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency, printed after the postwar coin shortage had already been running for several years. G. Hunckel of Bremen was a mid-tier Notgeld printer who handled commissions from dozens of small municipalities — reliable output, nothing experimental. The small Westerwald town of Hachenburg had no particular monetary crisis of its own; it was simply following what every other German Gemeinde was doing by 1921.
Series from this printer and period are generally well-documented but rarely scarce, since overprinting for collector sale was already common practice by the time this note was issued.