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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wesselburen (City of Wesselburen) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in terracotta-red on cream paper, the obverse centres on an oval vignette of a pastoral Dithmarschen landscape with cattle grazing in the foreground and a church steeple and windmill visible on the horizon. Flanking the central vignette are two vertical panels of fine foliate guilloche ornament, each enclosing a circular medallion bearing the monogram "50" in interlaced script. A serial-numbered coupon panel at the top carries the legend "Gutschein Nr." in Gothic letterpress, while a bottom panel contains the redemption clause in small Gothic type above a manuscript signature and the title "Bürgermeister". |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Wesselburen in Dithmarschen Wesselburen, seit 1899 Stadt; hier wurde am 18. März 1813 Friedrich Hebbel geboren und 1862 Professor Adolf Bartels, jetzt in Weimar. |
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Wesselburen is a small market town in Schleswig-Holstein, best known — to the extent it is known at all — as the birthplace of Friedrich Hebbel. Its 50 Pfennig Notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Germany between roughly 1917 and 1922, when coin shortages and wartime metal demands left local authorities scrambling to cover small-denomination transactions. Thousands of German towns issued similar notes; the vast majority are collectible today primarily as a series rather than individually.
Nothing in the available data points to a distinctive printer, unusual issuance circumstance, or known variety for this particular piece.