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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Ettenheim, City of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Ochre-toned reverse printed in brown and blue, centred on a circular vignette framed by a continuous inscription band, enclosing a view of the main market square of Ettenheim with the Nepomuk column in the foreground and timber-framed buildings beyond. To the left of the vignette stands a full-length figure of St. John of Nepomuk, and to the right a figure of St. Landelin of Ettenheim, both set against scrollwork arabesque panels; the denomination "50" is repeated in all four corners, and the issuer inscription "STADT ETTENHEIM" appears in bold letterpress across the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 50 WAS DU ERERBT VON DEN VÄTERN HAST ERWIRB ES UMS ZU BESITZEN STADT ETTENHEIM 50 50 |
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Ettenheim is a small town in Baden, best known — if at all — as the place where the Duc d'Enghien was seized by Napoleon's agents in 1804 before his execution in the moat at Vincennes. The town's notgeld has nothing to do with that history, but it is worth knowing where you are geographically and politically: Baden in 1922 was deep into the inflationary spiral that made municipal emergency money not just common but necessary for daily commerce.
Otto Angst designed several Baden notgeld issues of this period. The reference range 354.1-3/6 indicates at least three distinct varieties within this emission, likely differentiated by serial number color or overprint rather than substantive design changes.