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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Erkelenz (City of Erkelenz) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse lettering | Erkelenz zur Franzosenzeit 50 Kund Bekanntmachung der Besitzergreifung 1794 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Erkelenz is a small market town in the Rhineland, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to address a chronic shortage of official small-denomination coins. The Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with postwar demand for fractional coinage, and local authorities were left to fill the gap themselves.
The watermark on this note is worth noting: most municipal Notgeld of this period used plain stock, making a watermarked issue the exception rather than the rule for a town of Erkelenz's size. The DeNG reference suffix variants (4/6) indicate at least four documented printings within the series.