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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Esens (Magistrat) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and white notgeld on a foliate underprint with oak-leaf border vignettes; centre vignette bears the municipal coat of arms of Esens in polychrome, a bear above a castle tower on a blue shield with yellow border. Denomination numerals 50 appear at left and right, with the mayor's facsimile signature at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT ESENS, OSTFRIESLAND 50 PFENNIG 50 PFENNIG DER MAGISTRAT BÜRGERMEISTER |
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Esens is a small market town in East Frisia, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to locally issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortages of World War One and its aftermath. The Magistrat — the town's administrative council — had no printing infrastructure of its own; these small-denomination notes were typically contracted to regional printers, though the specific press for Esens issues is not always documented in surviving records.
East Frisian Notgeld from this period is modestly collected as a regional subset, but Esens pieces attract no particular premium outside specialist circles.