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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Calcar (City of Kalkar) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0214.1-3/4 |
| Obverse description | Brown letterpress vignette on a fine diamond-pattern guilloche underprint, with a caricatured town crier in period costume at left, holding a scroll inscribed with a dialect text in Low Rhenish. To the right, the large red numeral '50' over the denomination 'PFENNIG' dominates the upper right quadrant, with the issuing authority line 'CALCAR i.J. 1922' and 'DER BÜRGERMEISTER' below, accompanied by a facsimile signature and a circular red wax-style seal at lower centre. A serial number appears in the upper left corner. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a detailed engraved architectural vignette of the Hanselorsche Poort (Hanseler Gate) at Kalkar, rendered in a fine line-art style with trees and figures in the foreground. The denomination '50' appears in large red numerals at both upper corners flanking the red-printed heading 'Pf.Notgeld der Stadt Calcar.Pf.' across the top. Below the vignette, a caption identifies the structure, with the motto 'Achtet das Alte,' at lower left and 'Fördert das Neue!' at lower right in bold letterpress. |
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Kalkar, a small Niederrhein town with a disproportionately rich late-medieval heritage, issued notgeld almost as a civic promotion exercise during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar period. The Gebrüder Parcus firm in Munich was a favored printer for municipal notgeld across Bavaria and the Rhineland, producing relatively refined small-denomination emergency currency at a time when local governments were essentially designing their own money out of necessity.
The DeNG reference covers at least four varieties within this single 50 Pfennig issue — minor differences in serial numbering or overprint detail that make complete set assembly more work than the denomination implies.