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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Butzbach (City of Butzbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Butzbach Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennig 600 jähriges Stadtjubiläum 1321-1921 50 Pfennig Urkunde durch die am 10 August 1321 dem Ort Butzbach durch Ludwig den Bayern Stadtrechte verliehen wurden Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt durch die Stadtkasse in Butzbach der Zeitpunkt mit dem die Gültigkeit abläuft wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht werden Butzbach, den 6. Mai 1921 Der Bürgermeister Landgraf Phillipp von Butzbach |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a bold red Gothic title 'Fünfzig Pfennig' across the top. The central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Butzbach as rendered in the 17th century, captioned 'Ansicht von Butzbach nach Merian' and inscribed '17. Jahrhundert' above the view. Flanking the central panel are two vertical decorative columns: the left bearing a hexagonal '50' numeral device above a vignette of a washerwoman and a fruiting bough, and the right showing the city arms within a hexagonal frame above a figure of an artisan, with the legend 'Der Segen der Wetterau' repeated at each upper corner. The serial number, prefixed 'No D', is printed in black at the lower centre. |
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Butzbach issued this note during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1920–1922, when a nationwide shortage of small coins forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own fractional paper. The city's reliance on Scharfes Druckereien in nearby Wetzlar rather than one of the larger specialist houses in Leipzig or Berlin was typical of smaller Hessian towns working with regional contractors to keep costs and turnaround manageable.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (.1a through implied series) suggest the type exists in multiple signature or date configurations — worth checking against a complete Grabowski listing before attributing a specific subvariety.