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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Ettlingen, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt ETTLINGEN über FÜNFZIG PFENNIGE / DER GEMEINDERAT / Schnerrenberger 21 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black, ochre, and red, with a bold decorative floral border framing the entire field. A large rectangular vignette in a woodcut-style graphic depicts a historical scene of twelve city councillors condemned to death by the wheel, set against a backdrop of timber-framed and stone buildings in a medieval town square, with a crowd of figures gathered around them. Above the vignette a two-line Gothic verse inscription is printed in gold on black, and a second two-line verse appears below in the same manner. |
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Ettlingen's 1921 Pfennig-denomination notgeld belongs to the inflationary transitional period when municipal authorities across Germany were still issuing small-denomination emergency money — before hyperinflation rendered low-value paper effectively pointless by 1923. The city printed locally, which was relatively uncommon; most comparable municipalities contracted with Leipzig or Berlin printers to handle the volume.
Schnerrenberger is an unusually obscure credit, almost certainly a local commercial artist rather than a professional plate engraver.