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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Treysa (City of Treysa) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | P#DENG1/2#1340.1A-1/3 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein ~ Junker Hoose ~ Der Schwalmer Hans Hoose findet den auf der Jagd verunglückten Hessenlandgrafen Carl und bringt ihn nach dessen Schloß. Dieser Gutschein wird in Treysa bis zum 1.4.22 in Zahlung genommen bei: 50 Pf |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-width coloured vignette in green, red, and black, showing a forest scene in which a standing peasant figure (Hans Hoose) tends to a wounded nobleman (Landgrave Carl) seated on the ground beside a fallen stag, with two oak trees framing the composition. A dark crimson header band across the top bears the inscription 'SCHWALMER NOTSCHEIN' flanking a central heraldic shield with a rampant lion, while denomination roundels reading '50' in red on black appear at both lateral margins. A lower crimson caption band reads 'Hoose findet den Landgrafen', and the printer's imprint 'Scharfes Druckereien, Wetzlar' appears in small type below the lower border. |
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Treysa was a small Hessian town with a population under 3,000 when it issued this note during the acute coin shortage of 1922. Like hundreds of German municipalities that year, it turned to locally arranged notgeld not out of any monetary ambition but because Reichsbank coin simply wasn't reaching small-town commerce. Scharfes Druckereien in Wetzlar handled a significant volume of such municipal commissions across the Hesse-Nassau region during this period, which is why the production quality tends to be competent but unornamented.
Treysa was later absorbed into the new city of Schwalmstadt in 1970, making the issuing authority itself a historical artifact.