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50 Pfennig Verkehrsverein
| Issuer | Verkehrsverein Königswinter |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Pf DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD EINGELOEST BEI DER STÄDTISCHEN SPARKASSE ER VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT EINEN MONAT NACH ERFOLGTER ÖFFENTLICHER BEKANNTMACHUNG KÖNIGSWINTER D. 15. JULI 1921 D. VERKEHRS-V. KOENIGSWINTER (RHEIN) FRZ. JOS. KRINGS |
| Reverse description | Central medallion in black on an orange underprint contains a bust-length portrait of O. H. Walpott von Bassenheim, Burggraf of Drachenfels, rendered in a woodcut style and dated "16 77" below. A heraldic shield with a cross and anchor motif occupies the left border panel, while a rampant-lion coat of arms fills the right border panel. The subject's name "O·H·WALPOTT·V·BASSENHEIM" runs across the top border and the title "BURGGRAF·V·DRACHENFELS" across the bottom, with serial prefix "Æ" and number "35" visible in the upper field. |
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Königswinter notgeld from the inflation years tends to be locally themed to the point of parochialism, and this Verkehrsverein issue is no exception — the Verkehrsverein being a tourist promotion association rather than a bank or municipal authority, which made it an unusual but not unprecedented issuer of emergency small change in the Rhineland during 1921. The legal basis for such organizations issuing notgeld was never clean; most operated on tolerance rather than formal authorization.
Krings was a local Rhineland graphic artist whose name appears on several regional notgeld issues from this period. Attribution is confirmed in the plate, not inferred.