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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Allendorf an der Werra |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour Notgeld note with a decorative oak-leaf and acorn border framing a panoramic vignette of the Allendorf townscape, with church steeples and half-timbered buildings to the left and a clock tower with adjoining church to the right. At centre top, the municipal coat of arms is set within a laurel cartouche; below it, a bold Fraktur banner reads 'Stadt-Allendorf-Werra' above a central oval panel inscribed 'Serie I.' overlying a large underprinted '50', accompanied by the redemption clause text in Gothic script. The printer's imprint 'LITH. u. DRUCK v. BODENHEIM u. Co. ALLENDORF/W. JUNI 1921.' appears along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt-Allendorf-Werra Serie I. Dieser Schein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb dreier Monate nach öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgezeigt wird. LITH. u. DRUCK v. BODENHEIM u. Co. ALLENDORF/W. JUNI 1921. |
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Allendorf an der Werra is a small town in Hesse, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it resorted to printing its own emergency currency — Notgeld — as hyperinflation ground through the Weimar Republic's early years and central coin supplies collapsed. The printer here, Bodenheim u. Co., was a local firm, which was common for lower-denomination Notgeld; municipalities often contracted whoever was nearest rather than the specialist printers used for higher-value issues.
Local Notgeld from firms like Bodenheim was rarely produced to exacting standards, and ink adhesion and paper quality varied considerably across runs from the same issuer.