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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gangelt (Municipality of Gangelt, Prussian Rhine Province) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a colour woodcut-style vignette illustrating a rural landscape with two figures — an elderly man and a younger companion — standing to the right beneath a tree, gazing toward a depression in the terrain where ruins and debris are partially visible amid rolling countryside and a clouded sky. A monogram 'O.B.H.' appears at lower left of the vignette. The scene illustrates the local legend of the sunken Count's castle of Gangelt, with a verse inscription along the upper and lower borders. |
| Reverse lettering | Mit Mauern und Zinnen und Dienertroß / Versunken ist plötzlich das Grafenschloß |
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Gangelt is a small municipality in the Selfkant district, the westernmost point of Germany, and its 1921 notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of locally-printed emergency currency that flooded Germany as coin shortages made small change functionally unavailable. The Prussian Rhine Province municipalities were particularly active issuers — Gangelt among dozens that commissioned their own designs rather than using generic printer stock.
Collector demand drove many 1921 issues as much as economic necessity. By that year, the notgeld market had become semi-commercial, with some municipalities printing in quantities far exceeding local need and selling directly to notgeld collectors through mail order.