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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wiedenbrück (City of Wiedenbrück) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Ochre-toned vignette on cream paper, bearing three bust portraits of the founding Prince-Bishops of Wiedenbrück arranged within an elaborate pearl-bordered oval medallion. The central and largest portrait, inscribed "DROGO 949–969", shows a bearded bishop in full mitre; to the left stands "BALDEWIN v. RUSSEL 1258–1264" and to the right "FRANZ WILH. v. WARTENBERG 1625–1661", each also mitred. The artist's signature "Hausester" appears at lower right, and a banner along the base bears the collective legend "Unsere Gründer – Fürst-Bischöfe" flanking a small wheel motif. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg BALDEWIN v. RUSSEL 1258-1264 DROGO 949-969 FRANZ WILH. v. WARTENBERG 1625-1661 HAUSESTER Unsere Gründer - Fürst-Bischöfe |
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Wiedenbrück's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency money — the decorative Serienscheine phase, when towns competed as much for collector attention as for functional currency. By 1921, the Reichsbank had effectively ceded small-denomination circulation to local authorities, and hundreds of Westphalian municipalities flooded the market with artistically ambitious notes, many printed in limited series and sold directly to dealers.
The designer credit "Hausester" is uncommon in catalogued Notgeld — not a major commercial studio, which suggests a locally commissioned artist rather than one of the Frankfurt or Berlin firms that dominated the period's output.