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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Münster in Westfalen (City of Münster in Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 99 × 75 mm |
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| Reverse description | Olive-brown letterpress composition centred on an architectural vignette of the ornate Baroque wrought-iron portal of the Schmisinger Hof in Münster, with elaborately scrolled gate piers surmounted by a figural group and flanking pilasters; the courtyard façade of the manor house is visible beyond the open gates. Vertical side panels in Art Nouveau style carry interlaced foliate ornament enclosing the denomination numeral '50' repeated in each of the four corners. The lower border inscription identifies the subject in spaced capitals. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 MÜNSTER i/W. SCHMISINGER HOF |
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Münster's 1921 Notgeld issue falls squarely within the flood of municipal emergency currency that German cities produced between 1918 and 1922, driven not by genuine coin shortage — that had largely eased by 1921 — but by collector demand. By that point, many cities were printing Notgeld primarily as a revenue stream, knowing the notes would be bought and never returned for redemption. Münster was no exception.
J. Dominicus is a recurring name in Westphalian Notgeld design but remains poorly documented as an individual — likely a commercial graphic artist working on municipal commission rather than a specialist printer's engraver.