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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hagen im Bremischen (Municipality of Hagen im Bremischen) |
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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 geometric border in black and yellow. The upper half carries a horizontal vignette in grey tones reproducing a historical scene of the Bauerngericht (peasants' court) held beneath the 'Stal-Eke' oak tree at Hagen, with multiple figures in medieval dress gathered around kneeling supplicants. Below the vignette, the title 'Bauerngericht unter der Stal-Eke zu Hagen' is inscribed in large Gothic calligraphy, underlined by a red rule, followed by two columns of verse text in Fraktur script set against a light guilloche ground. |
| Reverse lettering | Bauerngericht unter der Stal-Eke zu Hagen Zu Hagen – Dort ist ein uralt heilger Raum, Dort steht ein uralt heilger Baum, Ein Zaun umhegt ihn wie ein Ring, Dort halten sie Gericht und Ding – In schönen Maientagen. Zu Hagen – Da ruft des Stierhorns mächtger Schall, Dann stellen sich hie Mannen all, Die Sachsen links, die Friesen rechts, All freigeborenen Geschlechts, Das Schwert darf jeder tragen. |
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Hagen im Bremischen is a small rural municipality in Lower Saxony, and its 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of locally printed emergency currency that flooded Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coins in circulation amid postwar inflation. Gebrüder Jänecke was a well-established Hannover printing house with a long track record in commercial and securities printing, which is why so many smaller municipalities contracted them rather than attempting local production.
The single signature — Rinken — almost certainly represents the Bürgermeister authorizing the issue, though no independent record confirms the full name.