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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Hachenburg (City of Hachenburg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NOT: GELD DER STADT HACHENBURG 50 Pf. Dieses Geld verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung in der Westerwälder Zeitung. Die Stadtgemeinde Hachenburg haftet für seine Einlösung. Hachenburg, 1. Juni 1921 Der Magistrat: |
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| Reverse lettering | DER SCHLOSSBOGEN ZU HACHENBURG 50 Pf. F.K.J. G. Hunckel, Bremen |
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Hachenburg's 1921 Notgeld issue is square — genuinely square, not just nearly so — which places it among the more deliberate format eccentricities of the German emergency money period. Most municipal issuers stuck to conventional oblong proportions; a 73 × 73 mm note required a specific decision, not a default.
G. Hunckel of Bremen handled a significant volume of Notgeld commissions during the early 1920s inflationary spiral, supplying small municipalities across northwest Germany that lacked access to larger printing houses. Hachenburg, a small Westerwald town in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, would have been exactly that kind of client.