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50 Pfennig Part 6
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Schöppenstedt |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Printer | Günther & Clausen |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a colourful woodcut-style vignette of the Schöppenstedt townscape, with a prominent Gothic church tower rising above a row of half-timbered and rendered buildings with red roofs, all framed by a decorative arched band inscribed with the issuer's name in bold lettering. Horizontal red, orange, and yellow striped bands radiate outward behind the arch, evoking the German national colours. The denomination '50 Pfennige 50' is rendered in large ornamental script at the top, while the expiry clause and printer's names appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | A. VI B |
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Schöppenstedt is a small town in Lower Saxony, and its municipal authority issued this Notgeld series during the postwar inflation period when the Reichsbank simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving. Günther & Clausen, based in Braunschweig, handled considerable regional Notgeld production during this period and supplied numerous Brunswick-area municipalities with workable if modest emergency currency.
The designation "Part 6" signals a later installment in a multi-series run — by 1921, many issuing towns were already on their third or fourth series, demand having repeatedly outpaced initial print runs.