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50 Pfennig Part 5
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Schöppenstedt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 104 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pfennige 50 Schöppenstedt Magistrat der Stadt Bürgermeister DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GULTIGKEIT D. 31.12.21 GÜNTHER CLAUSEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely typographic in execution, with a large decorative red capital 'E' occupying the left margin as an illuminated initial, followed by the note's text in blackletter (Fraktur) script rendered in black and red on a plain ground. A continuous ornamental border of interlocking grey and gold foliate and zigzag motifs frames all four sides of the note, with small decorative rosette elements at the corners. Plate letters 'A.V.' and 'PP' appear in the lower left and lower right corners respectively. |
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Schöppenstedt is a small town in Lower Saxony, and its municipal Notgeld issues from 1921 fall squarely within the massive wave of German emergency coinage and paper that flooded circulation during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar Republic. Local magistrates across Germany were effectively forced into the role of currency issuer as metal coins disappeared and the Reichsbank struggled to keep small denominations in circulation. Schöppenstedt's series ran to multiple parts — this being the fifth — suggesting the town printed in batches as demand exhausted earlier stocks.
The town has one genuine claim to wider fame: it was the birthplace of Till Eulenspiegel, the folkloric trickster, a detail the municipality leaned on heavily in its Notgeld imagery across the series.