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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hallenberg (City of Hallenberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same pink-and-dark-brown colour scheme and is dominated by a full-height topographic vignette rendered in detailed pen-and-ink style, showing a panoramic view of the town of Hallenberg with its characteristic half-timbered houses, church steeple with onion dome, and forested hillside rising steeply behind the townscape. The denomination '50 Pfg.' appears in bold outlined numerals at the upper right corner. At the foot of the note, a rectangular cartouche in script lettering carries the issuer inscription across two lines. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg. Notgeld der Stadt Hallenberg |
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Hallenberg is a small town in the Sauerland district of Westphalia, and this 50 Pfennig Notgeld piece is precisely the kind of municipal emergency issue that flooded Germany in 1921 as postwar inflation eroded confidence in Reichsbank notes and small coin disappeared from circulation entirely. Hundreds of German towns printed their own fractional currency during this period, and the vast majority were produced by local or regional printers with no central oversight.
The DeNG reference suggests two known varieties — likely differentiated by a minor typographic or color variation rather than a reissue date.