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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ettenheim (City of Ettenheim) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned note with the denomination numeral '50' in large gothic script at upper left and upper right. At centre, the circular city seal of Ettenheim dated 'ANNO 1545' with a vignette of the town gate flanked by towers, encircled by a laurel wreath and the legend 'SIGILLVM CIVITATIS'. The date '1. März 1922' appears at lower left, a handwritten mayoral signature ('Der Bürgermeister') at lower right, and the issuing authority 'NOT GELD DER STADT ETTENHEIM' in bold letterpress along the lower margin. The designer's name 'Otto Angst' is inscribed at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 · STADT ETTENHEIM · HERZOG VON ENGHIEN · CARDINAL ROHAN · WAPPEN D. HAUS ENGHIEN · SCHREITET ER ÜBER DEN RHEIN · JUST WIE DAMALS BEI ETTENHEIM · FÄLLT'S DEM FRANZOSEN HEUT EIN |
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Ettenheim's 1922 notgeld issue arrived during the acute inflationary spiral that was rapidly making Reichsmark coinage disappear from everyday commerce — municipalities across Baden scrambled to fill the gap with locally authorized scrip. Otto Angst, a regional artist with ties to the decorative arts movement active in southwestern Germany, handled the design work here, which gives this particular issue a slightly more considered visual program than the rushed municipal printings common elsewhere in the notgeld flood.
Ettenheim itself is a small Ortenau town with a particular historical footnote: it was the residence of the Duc d'Enghien before Napoleon had him seized and executed in 1804. Whether that history informed Angst's design choices is unrecorded.