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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Münster in Westfalen (City of Münster in Westphalia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 99 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-brown tones, the upper portion carries a panoramic woodcut-style vignette of the Münster city skyline as it appeared circa 1570, with Gothic church spires rising above a dense townscape; the date '1570' is inscribed within the skyline. At centre, a large ornate cartouche with baroque scrollwork and the city's heraldic shield is flanked by the denomination numerals '50' at left and 'Pf' in script at right. The lower section bears the issue date 'Münster, den 1. August 1921', the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat:', two manuscript signatures, and a redemption clause at lower left; the designer's signature 'J. Dominicus' appears within the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD · DER · STADT · 1570 50 Pf Einlösungstermin: Ein Monat nach er- folgtem öffentl. Aufruf. Münster, den 1. August 1921 Der Magistrat: MÜNSTER · i/W. |
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Münster's 1921 Notgeld issue was part of the broader municipal emergency currency wave that swept Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation — chronic metal shortages and rampant hoarding had made fractional change functionally unavailable to ordinary commerce. Cities issued their own paper scrip to fill the gap, and Münster produced a notably elaborate series compared to many contemporaries.
J. Dominicus is credited as designer, and the series reference DeNG 0916.1 places this within the well-documented Westphalian Notgeld catalogues. Collector demand for Münster issues has historically been steady — the city produced some of the more artistically considered Notgeld of the period, which drove many pieces into collections rather than tills almost immediately upon release.