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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Saarburg (Rheinland) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 98 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a richly illustrated Art Nouveau-style composition centred on the Saarburg town arms flanked by two putti — one holding a bunch of grapes and the other a wine goblet — amid lush grapevine foliage, evoking the region's viticultural heritage. A large banner arching across the top bears the inscription "1921er SAARBURGER" in bold lettering. Below the central vignette, a rectangular cartouche contains a five-line verse in German praising the local wine, framed by the same decorative vine border that encircles the entire composition. |
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| Signature(s) | Bürgermeister Rosing |
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Saarburg's 1922 Notgeld issue is one of the more carefully produced examples from the Rhineland series — Gebrüder Parcus in Munich had a strong reputation among municipal clients for quality lithographic work, and the city clearly spent more on this than the typical town scrip of the period. Martin Mendgen's involvement as designer is worth noting; he contributed to several Rhineland notgeld commissions during the early 1920s inflation years, though he remains underresearched relative to better-known notgeld artists.
The DeNG reference distinguishes five to six varieties within this single denomination, almost certainly reflecting sequential print runs as the 1922 hyperinflationary pressure kept demand for small-change substitutes relentless through the year.