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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bad Salzuflen (City of Bad Salzuflen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and tan on cream paper, the obverse carries a decorative letterpress design with the inscription "Notgeld der Stadt Bad Salzuflen" in Gothic script across the upper banner. At centre, a circular vignette contains a bust portrait of Eduard Hoffmann, his name inscribed in curved lettering flanking the image, set against radiating ornamental foliage panels with the denomination "50 Pfg" repeated in bold Gothic numerals at left and right. A two-line text across the lower panel states the validity condition and issuance date "Salzuflen im Mai 21," followed by facsimile signatures of the Magistrat and Stadtvorstand. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pfg So lang de witte Katte tauge, Das Wapen hält – so lang de witte Katte – olde Welt, So lang lücht Salzelas Stärke un Glanz in alle Welt |
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Bad Salzuflen's 50 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 was printed locally by Bega-Werke, a regional firm operating within the town itself — an unusual degree of self-sufficiency for municipal emergency currency of this period, when most smaller German cities contracted printing to Leipzig or Berlin houses. The reference numbers 1159.1-3/4 suggest at least four distinct varieties within this issue, likely differentiated by serial number ranges or minor typographic revisions rather than substantive redesign.
By 1921, German municipal notgeld had shifted from genuine emergency money into a semi-collectible commodity — cities issued attractive notes partly to profit from collectors who would never return them for redemption.