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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Calcar (City of Kalkar) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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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. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Pf.Notgeld der Stadt Calcar. Pf. 50 De Hanselersche Poort te KALKER. Achtet das Alte, Fördert das Neue! |
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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.