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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Treysa (City of Treysa) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green, red, and black on white paper, with a decorative Art Nouveau border of stylised foliage and floral motifs framing the entire note. A large central oval cartouche carries the title '~ Junker Hoose ~' in red script above a multi-line narrative text in red German cursive, recounting the legend of Hans Hoose discovering the injured Hessian Landgrave Carl during a hunt. Below the cartouche, a lower panel states the validity terms and acceptance locations, flanked by the denomination '50' in bold numerals at left and the abbreviation 'Pf' at right, with a handwritten serial number and manuscript signatures of the accepting merchants. |
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| Reverse lettering | SCHWALMER NOTSCHEIN 50 50 Hoose findet den Landgrafen Scharfes Druckereien, Wetzlar |
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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.