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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Königswinter (City of Königswinter) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD VON DER KÖNIGSWINTERER BANK U. DER HONNEFER VOLKSBANK EINGELÖST. ER VERFÄLLT EINEN MONAT NACH ÖFFENTL. ANZEIGE. KÖNIGSWINTER D. 1. 11. 21 KOENIGSWINTER FRZ. J. KRINGS |
| Reverse description | Yellow-cream note printed in green, grey-blue and brown, with two heraldic shields in Art Nouveau style flanking the central text field on left and right — the left shield bears a cross with arrows, the right a pennant device. The central panel, enclosed within an elaborate wavy green border, is filled entirely with two stanzas of a Rhenish folk poem in decorative Gothic script, attributed at the foot to 'H. W. MERTENS'. |
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Königswinter's 1921 Notgeld issue was one of hundreds produced by German municipalities during the coin shortage that followed World War One — small-denomination fractional currency had effectively vanished from circulation by 1920, hoarded and melted, and local authorities were left to fill the gap themselves. Franz Josef Krings was a local artist with roots in the Rhineland, and the municipality used the format as a modest vehicle for regional identity, a common enough impulse among Notgeld issuers of the period.
The Rhine-region Notgeld series from this period are sometimes collected as a group rather than individually — the printing quality and survival rates vary considerably across municipalities, with rural issuers often producing far smaller runs than their urban counterparts.