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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Xanten, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a central vignette of Xanten Cathedral rendered in teal and black by the artist Heinz Schiestl, whose signature appears within the vignette. To the left, a haloed figure of Saint Victor in armour and red cloak stands above a golden heraldic shield bearing a blue cross; to the right, Saint Helena with nimbus stands above a second heraldic shield. The denomination 'FÜNFZIG' and 'PFENNIG' appear in large red letterpress at the lower left and right corners respectively, flanking the validity clause and issue date of 1 October 1921. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black, green, and orange on cream paper, the reverse carries a bold silhouette-style central vignette illustrating Siegfried at the forge of Mime the smith, with two figures hammering at an anvil set within a forest clearing. Ravens circle above the tree canopy, and a smaller figure with a spear and hound appears in the left margin amid conifer trees. Shield cartouches in the upper left and right corners bear the numeral '50' in orange. |
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Xanten's 1921 Notgeld issue was designed by Heinz Schiestl, a Würzburg-based artist who contributed prolifically to the decorative Notgeld boom of the early Weimar period. His involvement here is typical of the era's cottage industry of municipal emergency money, where town councils commissioned recognizable illustrators partly for civic pride and partly because attractive notes were less likely to be spent — collector demand was already being deliberately cultivated by 1921.
Printing by J. Adolf Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu, a house that handled a substantial volume of south German Notgeld commissions during this period.