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50 Pfennig Part 3
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Schöppenstedt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Günther |
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| Obverse description | A colourful letterpress vignette occupies the central field, presenting a panoramic view of Schöppenstedt's market square with red-roofed townhouses and a prominent church tower rising at centre. A large arched banner curves over the townscape bearing the inscription 'Schöppenstedt' flanked by 'Magistrat der Stadt' on the left and 'Bürgermeister' on the right, while horizontal bands in the colours of the German flag — black, red, and gold — form a vivid background behind the arch. The denomination '50 Pfennige 50' is rendered in flowing script at the top, and the validity clause with expiry date appears along the lower margin, with the artist names 'Günther' and 'Clausen' noted at the bottom corners. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set in an ornate Gothic blackletter hand, presenting a five-line verse in Low German dialect printed in black and red on a plain paper ground. A decorative zigzag border in grey frames the entire composition, and an elaborately drawn initial capital 'D' in red opens the text at upper left. Down the left margin runs a stylised ornamental column in ochre incorporating a bull's head device, an allusion to the Eulenspiegel legend associated with Schöppenstedt; series designation 'A III' appears at lower left and 'H' at lower right. |
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Schöppenstedt is a small town in Lower Saxony best known — to the extent it is known at all — as the supposed home of Till Eulenspiegel, the folkloric trickster figure whose pranks were first printed in chapbook form around 1510. The town leaned into this association heavily during the Notgeld period, and the Eulenspiegel imagery across this series was a deliberate piece of local identity-building at a moment when hundreds of German municipalities were issuing emergency small change and competing, almost self-consciously, for collector attention.
The "Part 3" designation places this within a sequenced issue — the Magistrat released the Eulenspiegel notes in numbered sets, which drove secondary market demand even at the time of issue.