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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Oberwesel (City of Oberwesel) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeldschein über 50 Pfennige Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem die Giltigkeit abläuft, wird im St. Goarer Kreisblatt mitgeteilt. Oberwesel, den 18. März 1921. Der Bürgermeister: Oberwesel |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and black, with a central woodcut-style panoramic vignette of the Oberwesel townscape viewed from the Rhine, showing the Liebfrauenkirche spire, the Ochsenturm, and surrounding hills with a boat on the river in the foreground. A curved ribbon banner above the vignette bears a poetic inscription in blackletter script, while a lower scroll continues the verse. The Oberwesel civic eagle appears in heraldic shield cartouches at both left and right flanking the central scene, and the town name 'Oberwesel' is set in large blackletter type along the bottom edge. |
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Oberwesel's 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the second wave of municipal emergency currency — by this point, many German towns had shifted from purely functional scrip to issues deliberately aimed at collectors, a practice that generated real revenue for cash-strapped administrations. Whether Oberwesel's issue was primarily circulated locally or printed in excess for the collector trade is worth scrutinizing before attributing heavy wear to genuine use.
The designer credit "W. Eckyenwald" appears on a small number of Rhine valley notgeld issues from this period, though documentation on the individual remains sparse.