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50 Pfennig blue issue
| Issuer | Stadt Beverungen (City of Beverungen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a street scene along the Weserstraße in Beverungen, rendered in a woodcut-style engraving with half-timbered buildings and a church tower set against a clouded sky. The denomination '50 Pfg.' appears in decorative cartouches at upper left and upper right, flanked by oak leaf and acorn border ornaments. At the lower centre, the circular seal of the Magistrat der Stadt Beverungen is printed, accompanied by validity text and two facsimile signatures, above the bold gothic-lettered inscription 'Stadt Beverungen'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a coloured, satirical vignette in a cartoon-illustration style set in a historical Brakel townscape, showing a pillory and ducking stool in use as instruments of public punishment for thieves. A stout official figure stands to the right overseeing the scene, while a crowd is gathered in the background before timber-framed buildings. The denomination '150 Pfg.' appears in bold gothic lettering at centre right, and two verse inscriptions in German gothic script occupy the upper register. |
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Beverungen is a small town on the Weser in what was then the Prussian Province of Westphalia. Like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued Kleingeldscheine in the early 1920s to compensate for the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage — a problem that predated the hyperinflation proper and stemmed from metal hoarding and wartime procurement during 1914–1918.
The DeNG reference places this within a tightly catalogued local issue, and the blue color distinguishes it from companion denominations in the same series. Municipal notgeld of this period was often redeemable only within the issuing locality, which kept redemption rates high and survivor populations low.