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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Lorch im Rheingau |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#815.3 |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Lorch im Rheingau. 50 Pfennig Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit 4 Wochen nach Aufruf im Rheing. Anzeig. 15. Juni 1921 Der Magistrat: [Signatures] № [Serialnumber] GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN. (Translation: Town of Lorch in the Rheingau. 50 Pfennig This note loses its validity 4 weeks after public announcement in the Rheingau Gazette. 15th of June 1921 The magistrate: [Signatures] № [Serialnumber] Parcus Brothers Munich) |
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| Reverse lettering | LORCHER BERGSTURZ ALS DER FRANZMANN ZOG ZUM RHEIN GING VOM NOLLIG VIEL GESTEIN (Translation: Rock avalanche of Lorch As the frenchman came to the Rhine much rock came from the Nollig) |
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Lorch im Rheingau, a small wine town on the right bank of the Rhine at the mouth of the Wisper valley, issued this note as part of the broader Notgeld phenomenon that swept German municipalities in the early 1920s. With the Reichsbank unable to supply adequate small change during the inflationary spiral following the First World War, local authorities — including tiny Rheingau communes — were left to fill the gap themselves.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich was among the more prolific printers of municipal Notgeld, handling commissions from hundreds of small issuers across Bavaria and beyond. The watermarked paper on a note of this face value is a minor technical detail worth noting — many comparable issues from the same period dispensed with security features entirely.