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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Castrop (City of Castrop) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Castrop occupies the left half of the note, rendered in colour and showing a crenellated tower above a shield charged with a yellow saltire on a blue field, set against a stippled pink background. To the right, the denomination '50 Pfennig' is printed in bold Gothic blackletter script beneath the issuing authority legend in green and black letterpress. A small decorative scroll vignette runs along the lower centre, above the handwritten magistrate's signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Castrop Und blieb auch auf Castrops altem Geläuf manch' Renner und Reiter liegen, wir sehen die Felder in wilder Jagd am Wald noch vorüberfliegen. (Translation: 50 pfennigs Token money of the city Castrop And also stayed on Castrop's old run some racers and riders lie, we see the fields in a wild hunt fly past the forest.) |
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Castrop's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the peak wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded the Ruhr following the war — a period when coin shortages made small-denomination paper not just convenient but necessary. W. Crüwell was a well-established Dortmund commercial printer with a substantial Notgeld client list across Westphalia, which kept production costs manageable for smaller towns with limited budgets.
Walter Dogsette's involvement as designer is the one detail worth pausing on — his name appears across several Westphalian issues from this period, suggesting a working relationship with Crüwell rather than a direct municipal commission.