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50 Pfennig Buchdruckerei Rehmann
| Issuer | Bockenem, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ambergau ✠ Notgeld Statt Königsmacht herrscht Judengold Die Kunst ist fein; im Judensold Muß sich der Edle bücken. – Der Jude frech, der Deutsche bleich, Zerbrich, du schönes Deutsches Reich In Stücken! Dieser Schein kann bis 31. 12. 1923 bei mir eingelöst werden. Heinr. Rehmann, Buchdruckerei, Bockenem. |
| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a large colour vignette of a half-timbered building identified as the Superintendentur — the quarters of Field Marshal Tilly on the eve of the Battle of Lutter am Barenberge — rendered in a watercolour-style illustration with trees in the foreground. Large decorative '50 Pf' denomination panels in black and gold Gothic lettering flank the vignette on left and right, while the header repeats 'Ambergau Notgeld' with a swastika symbol, and a descriptive caption occupies the lower border. |
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Bockenem is a small town in Lower Saxony, and this note is about as local as Notgeld gets — printed by the town's own print shop, Buchdruckerei Heinrich Rehmann, rather than contracted out to one of the specialist emergency currency printers that handled most municipal issues of the period. Self-printed Notgeld from the issuing town itself is less common than it might seem; most smaller municipalities still relied on regional commercial printers.
By 1921 the acute coin shortage driving early Notgeld had largely passed, but many towns continued issuing for collector demand as much as practical need.