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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Kirn (City of Kirn) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central vignette of the ruined Kyrburg castle perched atop a rocky outcrop, rendered in a delicate grey-green line engraving style against a pale sky. Flanking the central scene are two boxed denomination panels reading '50 Pf.' in large bold red numerals, with allegorical vignettes of a craftsman at left and a windmill scene at right set below. A scrolled banner at top carries a patriotic motto in Gothic script, while a second ribbon below bears an additional motto and the Latin legend 'NUNQUAM RETRORSUM' centred above a small numeral '50'. |
| Reverse lettering | Beschirme dich Gott, bleibe deutsch nur dein Land NUNQUAM RETRORSUM So fest, wie die Felsen am Nahestrom 50 Pf. |
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Kirn, a small town on the Nahe River in the Rhineland-Palatinate, issued notgeld during the post-WWI period when coin shortages made small-denomination currency nearly impossible to transact with. Municipal authorities across Germany issued millions of these emergency pieces, and Stadt Kirn's 50 Pfennig belongs to that vast wave of local fiscal improvisation that swept German towns between roughly 1917 and 1922.
Paper notgeld of this type was produced cheaply, often by local printers, and legal validity was strictly municipal — unusable beyond the issuing town's jurisdiction.