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50 Pfennig Siegfried Abegg
| Issuer | Aurich, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Expressionist-style Notgeld note printed in dark brown, blue, and red on cream paper. A central vignette presents a stag in profile rendered in vigorous woodcut-like linework, flanked on either side by large stylised numerals '50' interwoven with decorative scroll ornaments; two circular cartouches carry the two-part motto text. The lower panel bears the validity date and the manuscript signature of Siegfried Abegg, Aurich, with the printer's imprint 'H. G. Rahtgens Lübeck' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed on plain uncoated cream paper with no design elements, text, or ornamentation, left entirely blank by the issuer. |
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Aurich, the administrative seat of the Ostfriesland district in Lower Saxony, issued notgeld in considerable variety during the early 1920s inflation spiral. This 50 Pfennig piece bears the signature of Siegfried Abegg, who served as Aurich's Bürgermeister during this period — his name appearing directly on the note gave the issue a degree of personal civic accountability unusual even by notgeld standards, where municipal authority was typically represented by title rather than individual name.
H. G. Rahtgens of Lübeck handled a substantial volume of municipal notgeld contracts across northern Germany in 1921, operating as one of the regional workhorses of the inflation-era small-denomination printing trade.