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50 Pfennig O. Försterling und Sohn, Hotel und Kaffee Kaiserhof
| Issuer | O. Försterling und Sohn, Hotel und Kaffee Kaiserhof, Münster in Westfalen |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown and olive-green Notgeld voucher enclosed within an octagonal decorative border. A vignette of a spread-winged dove in flight appears in the upper right, positioned above the Münster civic coat of arms — a crowned shield bearing a green trefoil branch — centred within the field alongside the denomination legend. The issuer's name and location are set in letterpress beneath the arms, with stylised foliate corner ornaments in olive-green completing the composition. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and olive-green reverse enclosed by a continuous foliate scroll border. A central oval vignette with a dotted white ground contains a half-length figure of a young male artisan or musician holding an instrument, set against radiating light; the numeral '50' appears in large oval cartouches flanking the vignette to either side. The voucher legend and serial number designation are printed in letterpress along the lower margin. |
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Münster's postwar notgeld boom produced thousands of small-denomination emergency issues from businesses, municipalities, and institutions, most of which circulated only locally and briefly before being redeemed or discarded. A hotel and café issuing its own 50 Pfennig scrip is entirely characteristic of the 1919–1922 period, when coin shortages pushed even private commercial establishments to print their own fractional currency. The Kaiserhof name was ubiquitous in German hospitality — virtually every mid-sized city had one — which occasionally creates attribution headaches for collectors working without the issuer's full municipal identifier.