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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Verden (Magistrat der Stadt Verden an der Aller) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shares the same ornate guilloche border of scrollwork and repeating rosette medallions in black and red as the obverse. At upper centre, a decorative ribbon cartouche bears the inscription 'STADT VERDEN', beneath which a scroll device carries the text 'Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennige' in Gothic blackletter script, with 'Fünfzig' rendered in bold red. Large numeral '50' in red is placed at upper left and upper right corners. The lower half of the note is dominated by a bold black silhouette panorama of the Verden an der Aller skyline, with church steeples and rooftops clearly identifiable. The printer's imprint 'J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER' appears in small type at the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | STADT VERDEN Gutschein über Fünfzig Pfennige 50 J. C. KÖNIG & EBHARDT IN HANNOVER |
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Verden an der Aller issued this Notgeld note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities in 1919–1921, when the Reichsbank's inability to maintain adequate coin supplies forced hundreds of towns to print their own emergency fractions. König & Ebhardt in Hannover were among the most active regional printers serving this demand, producing Kleingeldscheine for dozens of Lower Saxon towns simultaneously.
Verden's series attracted collector interest early — the organized Notgeld collecting craze was already well underway by 1920, and many municipalities printed deliberately in excess of circulation needs to sell to philatelic buyers.