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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Kitzingen (City Council of Kitzingen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette drawn by M. Heim shows two figures in period dress carrying barrels and implements at the base of a medieval stone tower, with a worker visible at the top; the Kitzingen municipal coat of arms appears in a cartouche at the upper centre flanked by the date 1921 and decorative red scroll ornaments. The denomination FÜNFZIG PFENNIG is set in bold letterpress across the top, while verse text in Gothic lettering runs vertically along both lateral borders. Below the vignette, the issuing authority STADTRAT KITZINGEN with the title RECHTS-BÜRGERMEISTER and validity clause GÜLTIG BIS 4 WOCHEN NACH AUFRUF appear above a manuscript signature and red serial number. |
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| Signature(s) | H. Schuster |
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Kitzingen sits on the Main River in Lower Franconia, and the town's 1921 Notgeld issue was one of thousands printed by German municipalities during the coin shortage that followed the First World War. What makes this series worth noting is the local production: M. Horschig & Schubert was a Kitzingen printer issuing notes for its own town, an arrangement that kept costs down but also meant quality control varied considerably across the run.
Designer M. Heim's involvement is documented in the plate credits — a relatively rare instance of a local Notgeld series carrying an individual attribution rather than an anonymous house design.