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50 Pfennig Part 4
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Schöppenstedt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Colourful letterpress vignette of the Schöppenstedt townscape, with a Gothic church tower rising above red-roofed half-timbered buildings at centre, framed by a dotted semicircular arch bearing the town name 'Schöppenstedt' and flanked by radiating black-red-gold striped banners. The denomination '50 Pfennige 50' appears in large decorative script along the top, with 'Magistrat der Stadt' at left and 'Bürgermeister' at right of the arch. The validity notice and artist credits 'Günther' and 'Clausen' are printed in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Bold woodcut-style illustration in black, ochre, and red on a cream ground, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. The scene depicts a densely packed crowd of robed figures advancing from right, led by a central figure brandishing a sword, pressing against a group of cowering townspeople sheltering beside a stone wall at left. The composition evokes a historical or allegorical narrative associated with Schöppenstedt's local folklore, rendered in a vigorous Expressionist graphic style typical of early 1920s German Notgeld art. |
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| Comments |
Schöppenstedt is a small town in Lower Saxony, and its 1921 Notgeld issues are among the more self-consciously decorative of the German municipal emergency money wave — the series was clearly intended for sale to collectors as much as for everyday transactions. The DeNG reference places this as the fourth note in a ten-piece set, an unusually large run for a town of this size.
The Günther and Clausen credit identifies the design studio, not a professional security printer. Many such Notgeld commissions went to commercial art firms with no banking background whatsoever.