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50 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadt Schopfheim (City of Schopfheim) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-green notgeld with a central circular vignette of a woman in traditional Black Forest costume, flanked by the denomination inscription "Fünfzig Pfennig" in Gothic script. A green star-burst underprint radiates behind the vignette, with the city arms below it. Date "Schopfheim, 1. April 1921", serial number, and two manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Es gfallt mer num me eini und selli gfallt mer gwis! O wenni doch das- Maidle hätt es ischt so flink und dundersnett so dundersnett i wär im Paradies! Hans und Verene J. P. Hebel. R. Specht |
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Schopfheim's 1921 notgeld issue was one of several thousand municipal emergency currency series produced across Weimar Germany as small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply not minted in sufficient volume to meet everyday demand. Poppen & Ortmann of Freiburg were a reliable regional lithographic house who handled a steady stream of Baden notgeld work during this period, which gives this note a competent if unsurprising execution.
The embossed municipal seal was the issuer's primary authentication device — straightforward for a small city administration without access to more sophisticated security printing.