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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Calcar (City of Kalkar) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 97132 Hört börger en innwooner! et sall jedreem bekenat gemakkt worde: "dat getwonge dör de schläch ten Zitt, Calcar geeft det noot z gald ält; eene mont no oppruup, ro sall 't sinn; mott ommgetusst sinn Jose schinn; eene mont no oppruup, der moj on nasse, nemmt Calcar Jet schinn ni'mer in Kasse." 50 PFENNIG CALCAR i. J. 1922 DER BÜRGERMEISTER: GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf. Notgeld der Stadt Calcar. Pf 50 De STAD KALKER van de Monterberg te sien Achtet das Alte, Fördert das Neue! |
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Kalkar — the small Rhineland town near the Dutch border — issued notgeld during the early 1920s inflationary spiral like hundreds of other German municipalities scrambling to cover coin shortages. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich was one of the more prolific specialist printers of municipal emergency money during this period, handling commissions from towns across Germany that lacked any local printing infrastructure capable of producing secure small-denomination notes.
Kalkar's series has a collector following partly because of the town's association with the unfinished late-Gothic St. Nikolai church, though how heavily that local identity was worked into the design varies across the denominations.