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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Trappstadt (Market Town of Trappstadt) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and black on white paper with a rectangular blue border frame. A central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Trappstadt — a shield bearing a perched bird on a rocky outcrop, surmounted by ornamental scrollwork — flanked on either side by the denomination numeral '50' in large blue digits, each accompanied by the text 'Fünfzig Pfennig' above and below. The heading 'TRAPPSTADTER·NOTGELD' appears in bold Gothic lettering across the top, beneath which runs the issuing legend; the date 'Trappstadt, 18.1.21' and a manuscript signature 'Götz' appear at lower right, with the designer's name 'Wiesler' in the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red, black, and grey on white paper with a geometric border incorporating red corner squares and interlocking grey-and-white stepped motifs. A bold red map of Germany — rendered in outline style with internal provincial boundary lines — occupies the centre of the composition, accompanied to the lower right by the caption 'Deutschland in der Sage!' A patriotic verse in calligraphic Gothic script fills the left portion of the field, and a small botanical sprig vignette appears at lower left. Along the bottom runs the commemorative inscription 'Erinnerung·an·den·18.1.1871.' referencing the proclamation of the German Empire. |
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Trappstadt is a small Franconian market town in Lower Franconia with a population that barely cleared a thousand in the early 1920s — which makes it a striking example of just how far down the administrative ladder German Notgeld issuance penetrated during the postwar coin shortage. Thousands of municipalities, however minor, exercised the practical necessity of printing their own small-denomination emergency currency between 1919 and 1922.
Franz Scheiner's Kunstanstalt in Würzburg was a regional commercial art printer that handled numerous Bavarian and Franconian Notgeld commissions during this period. The designer credit to Wiesler and the single-signatory authorization by Götz reflect the entirely local administrative character of the issue.