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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Hoym |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-green on cream paper, the central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of old Hoym as it appeared in 1700, captioned on a scroll banner above reading 'Das alte Hoym i. J. 1700.' To the left, a vertical legend identifies key landmarks within the scene (church, tower, castle, Oberhoff, town hall, mill, castle gate, Ballenstedt, Gegenstein, Quedlinburg). The civic arms of Hoym appear at upper right, while the denomination '50' is repeated in each corner within a diamond-patterned border. The lower portion carries the voucher number, validity clause, date 17.5.1921, and the facsimile signature of the Magistrat. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in the same olive-green tone, the upper register carries a four-line verse in Gothic script spread across a ribbon banner, flanked on either side by vignettes of smoking volcanic or kiln mounds. The central composition, signed by engraver W. Richter, illustrates a collection of prehistoric ceramic finds from Hoym arranged on a table beneath a domed funerary urn, with smaller vessels, jugs, and tools displayed around it. A dotted semicircular border frames the main group. The lower panel, set between two oval '50' cartouches, bears the descriptive caption identifying the objects as prehistoric finds from Hoym, specifically the Hoymer Hausurne. |
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Hoym is a small town in the Harz foothills — a Gemeinde of no particular commercial weight — which makes the commissioning of a locally engraved Notgeld series from Louis Koch in Halberstadt somewhat more deliberate than the typical municipal rubber-stamp affair. Koch was a regional printer who handled a number of Harz-area emergency issues during the 1921 inflation surge, when the Reichsbank's coin shortage made small-denomination paper a practical necessity rather than a collector's game.
The engraver credit to W. Richter is uncommon enough to be worth noting; most small-town Notgeld at this level went to generic lithographic trade houses with no individual engraver named.