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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Altenkirchen (Westerwald) |
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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 presents a central vignette of a sower striding across a field, rendered in a folk-art lithographic style against a yellow horizon with a distant townscape including a church steeple; livestock and birds animate the foreground. Industrial vignettes — a factory with smoking chimneys to the left and a mine headframe to the right — flank the central scene within a green foliate frame. A lower scroll cartouche bears the place name 'Altenkirchen Westerwald' in red Gothic lettering alongside the year '1921', with the printer's imprint below. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. Altenkirchen Wester-Wald. 1921 Graph. Kunstanstalt Albert Fastenrath Elberfld. |
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| Comments |
Altenkirchen's 1921 notgeld issue was one of hundreds produced by German district administrations scrambling to fill the small-denomination coin shortage that had plagued daily commerce since the war. The Kreisausschuss — the elected district committee — had the legal standing to authorize such emergency paper, though the practice was barely regulated and wildly inconsistent across jurisdictions.
Albert Fastenrath's Elberfeld workshop was a prolific producer of municipal notgeld during this period, handling orders from multiple Westphalian and Rhenish districts simultaneously. Whether that production volume affected quality control on any particular run is worth considering when assessing individual examples.