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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Bürgermeisterei Eppelborn-Dirmingen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and black on a crosshatch guilloche ground, with denomination roundels '50' at each corner within ornate scroll borders. The central vignette, set within a scalloped oval frame, presents a detailed engraving of the famous 'Kaisereiche zu Eppelborn' — a monumental oak tree densely covered in foliage, with multiple open-air timber platforms at various heights accommodating groups of figures, and two figures standing at the very summit beside a flagpole. A rectangular label at the base of the vignette carries the inscription 'KAISEREICHE ZU EPPELBORN'. |
| Reverse lettering | KAISEREICHE ZU EPPELBORN |
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Bürgermeisterei Eppelborn-Dirmingen was a small administrative commune in the Saar region, which by 1921 was under League of Nations administration following the Treaty of Versailles. The broader Saar territory's complicated political status — neither fully German nor French, governed by an international commission pending a 1935 plebiscite — created genuine currency confusion at the local level, and many small communes resorted to issuing their own Kleingeldersatz (small-change substitutes) to fill gaps left by the disrupted German monetary supply.
Saar-region notgeld from this period tends to be overlooked in favor of the more elaborate German issues, which keeps prices modest relative to scarcity.