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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Gangelt (Prussian province of Rhine) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two vertical panels: the left panel carries the municipal coat of arms of Gangelt — a black lion rampant on a yellow field — above a blue foliate underprint framing the large numeral "50" in black. The right panel is printed on a salmon-orange ground and bears the town name "Gangelt" in ornate Gothic script at the top in teal against a deep blue band, with the denomination "Fünfzig Pfennig" in bold black Fraktur lettering below. The body text of the voucher, issue date of 21 August 1921, a manuscript facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, and a red serial number appear in the lower portion of the right panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ausplünderung durch die Hessen - 1643 |
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Gangelt is a small market town in the Selfkant district, which has the distinction of being the last territory returned to West Germany by the Netherlands — not until 1963, making it briefly the westernmost point of the Netherlands after 1949. The 1921 notgeld issue predates all of that, but the town's position in a perpetually contested border zone gives even routine municipal emergency currency a slightly unusual geographic weight.
Pfennig-denomination notgeld from small Rhenish municipalities was typically a short-lived convenience measure during the coin shortage of 1920–1922. Gangelt's issue is unremarkable in format but scarce simply because so little survived redemption.